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WAR IN I RAQ_

TERRORISM SITREP by Dr. Martin Brass

Osama bin Laden calls for Osama wannabes to wage all-out jihad against Americans_

SPECOPS IN IRAQ by Christopher Lowe

Most Pentagon — and other — War-in-lraq pundits, who’ve harbored longstanding animosity toward
SpecOps, chew on some bitter crow as U.S., Australian, British and Polish Special Operators, and their
Kurdish Allies, save the day — and ensure victory. _

MARCH TO RAGHDAD by Adam Geibel

The storied 7th Cav adds to its history a magnificent new chapter as it blasts and bashes its way into
“fortress” Baghdad. _

BATTLE MAPS SECTION: Graphics by Nathaniel Levine

THE WAR IN IRAQ: OPENING SALVOS

Military actions in the first two days of Operation Iraqi Freedom . ...

KEY EVENTS

The second partial week of Operation Iraqi Freedom

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NORTHERN IRAQ FIREFIGHT by Victor Black

In the war’s largest Special Op, U.S. SpecOps Forces and their valiant Kurdish Pesh Merga Allies storm a flfl
mountain stronghold and decimate al-Qaeda-related Ansar al-lslam forces_ll

THUNDER RUN FOR KIRKUK by Victor Black

What do you do if you need to conquer Kirkuk, Saddam’s holdouts’ bastion in Northern Iraq, but need to
compensate for almost two divisions, thanks to Turkey’s cold feet? Unleash SpecOps Forces and Kurdish
Pesh Merga warriors._

WAR CORRESPONDENTS' "MIDNIGHT RUN" TO IRAQ by Victor Black

SOFs man on the ground inside Kurdistan plays an on-the-edge gamble to even get into the war zone. _

SMALL ARMS T&E

The VZ2000 by Gary Paul Johnston

What the AK-47 should have/could have been. Ohio Ordnance Works’ Czech-designed new offering —
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COLUMNS

COMMAND GUIDANCE by Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown, USAR (Ret.;
Afterthoughts On The Iraqi War-

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INSIDE THE RING by Bill Gertz And Rowan Scarborough
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SOUND OFF by Col. David H. Hackworth, USA (Ret.;
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On the Cover

Corpora! Christopher Tate, of
Shawnee. Kan., with Kilo Co.,
3rd Bn., 7th Marines, 1st
Marine Division, awaits orders
on the southeastern
edge of Baghdad.

Jeff Ryals via 7th Cavalry Association

AFP Photo/Joseph Barrak

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Inter-Service Rivalry?

One item the Marines are going to
have to adhere to if they want Spec Op
missions in the future is to become
silent professionals, not in the lime¬
light of the TV camera gloating their
bravado. This is why SOF dread using
Marines unless they absolutely require
a large sea-borne assault.

Christian Lowe’s article, Marine
Corps Now Authorized SpecOps Unit
needs a few fact corrections as well.

He mentioned that the USMC Recon
Teams seized the forward operating
base “Camp Rhino”(prior to that it was
Objective Rhino) when in fact that base
was already seized and cleared by the

Rangers and Special Forces (Task Force
Dagger) including the Kandahar
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the base after it was all clear. After the
fall of Kandahar, General Franks decid¬
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from Camp Rhino to the Kandahar air¬
port. The Marines showed up with a
platoon of media as usual and most of
the viewers did not even notice when
they entered the airport, painted on the
control tower of the airport was
“TEXAS 17.” This was a calling card
left by the U.S. Army Special Forces A-
Team that had seized and cleared it
long before any Marine had set foot on
the tarmac. That’s why they are true
“Silent Professionals.”

name withheld

The Defamation Thing

Although I am a U.S. resident, SOFs
addict and a great supporter of the U.S.
troops, all die military branches and
the U.S. special ops units, I would like
to thank you for allowing me to read
this “fine” article: “the Israeli Shooting
Tech.” — last issue.

I find that article so annoying that

I would definitely reconsider my SOF
membership. The writer’s attitude in
that article so upsets me that I barely
could stop myself from bringing a
judiciary action against the writer and
the magazine.

Although I read the article more
than a few times, I couldn’t shake the
bad feeling that I absorbed from reading
it. The article is infected with examples
and explanations regarding the so
called “the Israeli shooting techniques,”
while the defamation spirit flies above
it all. It will take me a book long of
explanations to refer to each wrongful
mistake that the educated writer
named. But first comes first, I wit¬
nessed and practiced the “Weaver”
method — it’s an astonishing and a
well-established system to handle a
gun. I’m well aware of the so-called
“Israeli shooting experts” that [are]
selling their expertise all around — I
find it embarrassing. Allow me to put
some of the things in the right perspec¬
tive. I don’t know whatever kind of for¬
mer “Mossad” agents you criticized, or
why you chose specifically them to give
your audience a reflection on the Israeli
shooting capabilities, while obviously
they are not a good demonstration to
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cious that their accent played a roll in
your criticism. Yes, some of the tech¬
niques that you shared with us are well
used all over Israel and in the world.
Yes, like you so wisely observed those
are basic drills, and basics only. No, the
drills demands using of both hands,
plus aiming (not as demonstrated in the
pictures). Yes, instinctive shooting is
being taught in some institutes in Israel,
for self-defense purposes only and it is
an effective method! Nowhere in Israel,
drawing automatically means shooting.
Aiming is taught and required, even
from simple civilians. The article gives
the reader a reflection on things that the

writer might have seen, but by far out
of context, and far from accurate. To
those examples the writer willfully
attached nasty remarks with respect to
the slogans of the “Israeli courses”
that take place all over the states
(although, I am quit agree with him,
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1 can understand the frustration of
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Jerusalem, you might be able to recon¬
sider your narrow opinion.

Boaz Levy, adv.

(Former Israeli SpecOps unit veteran,

and former small-arms instructor.)

If I read your letter correctly, you
seem to agree with the thrust of the story,
which is criticizing the hucksters who
claim to be former Mossad, Israeli
SpecOps, etc.; not criticizing the real-
deal instructors or their techniques .
Defamatory? You do not defame the legit¬
imate by pointing out the flaws in frauds.
SOF has visited a number of (genuine)
Israeli training facilities over the years,
and has always reported on than favor¬
ably. You seem to imply the frauds were
subject to criticism because they were
Israelis, not because they were frauds.
That is not the case. Lighten up?

fastern Sampson Option

I greatly appreciated the info about
Israel’s nuclear Sampson Option pro¬
gram, designed for fearful retaliation
against such attackers, like Iraq, Syria,
Iran, etc. I firmly believe that Taiwan
should adopt a Samson Option of its
own because of the Red Chinese threat
so close to its shores. Taiwan should
make a stockpile of tactical battlefield
nuclear weapons and be ready to use
them in case it is in serious danger of
collapsing from an invasion by China.
Such a nuclear weapons program by
Taiwan should be called either “Crush
The Chinese Invaders” or the “Chiang
Kai-shek Option.”

I have nothing but total hatred for
the Bejing regime, am a 100% support¬
er of Taiwan, and greatly admire the
late Chiang Kai-shek. I am also the
proud owner of a genuine Chinese
Nationalist 8x5 7mm Mauser (made in
1936, likely in Shanghai), which
helped a lot of Japanese and Chinese
Reds to die for their countries.

My thanks to the fine folks of SOF
and its loyal readers, who refuse to kiss
the boot of the Democratic Party and
Red China. I request that SOF publish
a good article about our ally Taiwan in
a future issue. Long live Taiwan and TO
HELL with the Red Chinese dictator¬
ship! Any readers of SOF are welcome
to e-mail me, especially any English-flu¬
ent readers in Taiwan.

John Bales

chinesemauser@yahoo.com ^

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SITREP

By Dr. Martin Brass

“A HUNDRiD DRAMA BIN LADENS

treated by Iraqi war warns Egypt President
Mubarak. AP obtains al-Qaeda audio:
“Muslim brothers, let us promise to devote
our lives to martyrdom in way of Allah.
America lias attack mi Iraq and soon will also
attack Iran. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Sudan.
Voice believed lo he bin Laden's orders:
“Avenge the innocent children” of Iraq. "II
you started suicide attacks you wiH'Soe imp
fear of Americans all over the world. Those
people who cam) join forces in jihad
should give financial he hi to those
Mujahetiean who are fighting against U.S.
aggression.” cj

CRU5AQBI Osama’s al-NitUa web¬
site mobilizes for massive “perrMJa war¬
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UNITED STATES SENTENCED to 155 years.
Mohamad Hammond cigarette-smugg’inj
ring Lord in North Carolina lunded Mizbollah.
ARSON PLOT on D.C. Metrorail system possi¬
bly thwarted after capture of al-Qaeda “archi¬
tect” of 9-11, Khalid Sheik Mohammed.

PHILIPPINES MOSQUES BLOWN-UP in retaliation for
bombing which killed 16 injured 50. MORO Islamic
Liberation aimed at igniting Christian-Muslim war.
“STATE OF LAWLESS" Violence declared. Crackdown on
terrorists. EXPELLED Iraqi diplomat Husham Husain.
ARRESTED 11 Iraqi nationals linked to Muslim extremists,
the Abu Sayyaf Group, which is linked to Saddam.

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COLOMBIA EASTER TERROR.
FARC opens fire on religious pro¬
cession. Three killed before police
repel attack.

INDONESIA CIVIL WAR LOOMING.
25-year Mh secessionist movement
which killed 10,000 threatens to flare-
up again/

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IRAQ U.S. Marines find suicide lumber wired
vests filled with explosives. Shins funded by
Iran oppose U.S. occupation. “DR GERM,”
nerve-agent guru surrenders yet no weapons of
mass destruction found to date. HlZBDLLAH
operatives captured on Iraq-Syrian border. TER¬
ROR CAMP discovered with 20 buildings on 25
acres operated by PLF. Chemicals, beakers,
pipes and bomb making equipment found.

AFGHANISTAN THREE MARINES killed
in firelight when Taliban launch rocket in
U.S. base. BLOWN-UP Four Taliban just
before bombs go off. Taliban leaders
announce reorganizing to destabilize
U.S.-backed Karzai government, Schools
burned. RED CROSS worker killed.
OPIUM TRADE becomes "ECONOMIC
NARCOTIC.” TERRORISTS use drug¬
smuggling routes to escape. #1 Opium¬
trading Afghanistan supplies 75% of
European supply and all ol Russia.

RUSSIA Accused of supplying Saddam intelligence, lists of assassins for “hits”
in the West. ARMS SALES details by Russia and Israel of military aircraft, rockets
and missiles to China, Syria, and Egypt provided.

IAUANS KOSOVO: KLA allegedly using Kosovo Protection Corp organized by
NATO as shield for military-weapons training for potential independence move¬
ment from Serbia. ALBANIA NATIONAL ARMY (ANA) labeled terrorist group by
U.N. RAILROAD BRIDGE blown up, two ANA operators killed in explosion.

ITALY FUGITIVE ABU ABBAS caught by U.S. SpecOps in Iraq. 18-year fugi¬
tive was convicted in abstentia in Italy for terrorism and hijacking. Abbas,
leader of faction of Palestine Liberation Front, hijacked cruise slilp AchiHe
Lauro with 500 passengers. 1995 CASE SENSATIONALIZED when Jewish
American Leon Klinghoffer was killed in wheelchair and thrown overboard.

CZECH REPUBLIC RAOIO FREE EUROPE targeted. Iraqi agents
allegedly plot to attack Radio Free Iraq broadcast in Arabic. EXPELLED
Iraqi diplomat tied to 9-11 IVastermind Mohammed Atta.

lUSltul SYRIAN suicide
4ojniieT»arresled alter
nrn> si11.rf-hil bomhrng.

ISRAEL ASSASSINATION PLOT
on Prime Minister Shu mu hy
LeL^nese-Canadian Hizbullah

« pre-empted. HIZBULLAH
nurture in Canaria uil-m ti¬
trated from Iran.

OSAMA HUB that
channeled dozens of wtrem-
ists “shipping killers into
Iraq by bus-loads 'icewfimu
to Rumsfeld. BUSH THREAT¬
ENS SYRIA: “cooperate” to
expol Iraqi Chiefs or else.

[NulANU Plot to take down
passenger Jet with shoulder-
fired missile tram nearby
amusement park heading In
world’s busiest airport,
Heathrow, Ihurarted by thou¬
sands of military and police.
STATELESS CLERIC Abu Hamza
al-Masri, Jsiamic Army of Aden
member’s citizenship stripped.
Cleric wanted in Yemen on ter¬
rorism charges can now be
extradited. President Bush is
“the GENGIS KHAN of this centu¬
ry” and Tony Blair “his cham¬
bermaid,” Masri said.

' R IIA DISAPPEARED. More than 3D
European tourists in two months believed
to be held captive by bandit chief Miought
to be linked with bin Laden.

U.S. WAHABISM “SHOVED

DOWN AMERICANS THROAT?” National

Delcuse. Muslim Army Sergeant Akbar kills
two ami 'Winds 14 with grenade attack as
he allegedly yelled “You guys are coming
into our countries and you're going to rape
our women and will kill our children.”
SAUDI-FUNDED Akbar attended Bilal
Islamic Center linked with King Fahd
Mosque. His Muslim military chaplain
trained by Saudi-funded organization.

FAHISIAH TON OF DRUGS
seized by §order guards smug¬
gled in from Afghanistan on cara¬
van of donkeys through theiMurda
Karex mountains. TRANSIT
ROUTE. Pakistan route for one
forth of heroin trom Afghanistan.
“HAVEN OF CHOICE” harbors
thousands of IslumiG Militants
oonvinoed that Pakistan Nuclear
capability is protection from
attack by U.S.

UbANIIA SADDAM link to Allied
Democratic Forces (ADF). ADF chief
organizes “international Mujahadeen
team mission “to smuggle arms on
global 'scale ito holy warriors fighting
against U.S., UK and Israeli influence
in Africa.” Members (rained in
Afghanistan and Pakistan.

JUKIIAN ff IlMlN IRAQI SPIES
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gets arrested and explosives confis¬
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(Dateline, Visalia, CA) - Bob Taylor
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bad attitude.

So he had to learn how to fight - and
win - against the bigger guys who looked
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target. In school. In the jungles and
battlefields of Vietnam. In the filthy
streets ruled by drug-dealing gangs.

He’s just 5 feet 6 inches tall, and

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Nevertheless, Bob Taylor is widely
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world as perhaps the best “self edu¬
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or usually find yourself looking up at
people when they talk to you... this is
the PERFECT fighting tactics system
you could ever ask for. You don’t need
to be strong, or agile, or possess magic
powers. In fact... your size is actually

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big gorilla type... then you want to see
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against you, you’re dead meat in a real
fight. What’s more... knowing these nasty
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use them too. They are just as devastat¬
ing when used by a big guy against an¬
other big guy... or a vicious small guy
looking to punch your lights out.

But whether you’re big, or little, or
in-between... you’ll want to know what
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You Can See It
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I’ll explain in a second...

First, though... there’s a few things
you need to understand.

This ain’t your normal martial

arts, not by a long shot. Bob developed
his unique style of “dirty fighting” dur¬
ing his 30 years of front-line combat and
jungle fighting, bar brawls and ambushes,
bounty hunting and busting up narcotics
gangs. He’s worked as a private eye, a
personal armed bodyguard to superstar
rock groups (like Aerosmith, the Who
and Led Zepplin), and has been “loaned-
out’’ for his expertise in “hot action” ca¬

Bob Taylor may only be 5'6” and maybe 140-
pounds , but he is never-the-less one of the most
feared "self-educated’' fighters on earth. Now he
wants to show YOU all his small-man’s "dirty tricks" l

nine handling to 11 different police ju¬
risdictions. (You know it’s serious shit
when the dogs are called in!) He’s also a
recognized “Chi Master” - at an infa¬
mous Soldier of Fortune convention, he
drove a steel rod through his forearm,
tied it to a new Ford Mustang, and
dragged the car 287 feet ... without
blood, without pain, without scarring.
(Don’t try this at home.)

What’s more, Bob is among the few
world-class masters left in the forgot¬
ten art of knife-throwing. {And he’s a
knife designer. His blades are among
the most sought-after weapons in the
martial arts world). He’s also a master
at improvised weapons - and can stick

Listen To What Men Who Know Are

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seeing BobTaylor in action, all my hand-to-hand skills suddenly seem
inadequate ... this is the most dangerous man I’ve ever seen in a fighting situation. ”
- Vent Faria, Central Valley, California

»look sn

rst glance, but I guarantee you ’ll think you ’re fighting

two men at once if you ever square up with him. The tricks and strikes he uses are
simply the most effective ways to dominate a fight I’ve ever seen. ” — M. Martinez,
New Mexico

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‘’Whew! Absolutely the nastiest fighting secrets I’ve ever been shown. Still, the
way Bob teaches, it’s easy stuff to master. lean definitely see using these dirty tricks if
I’m ever in another dangerous situation. Who wants a drawn out slugfest, when you
can end the fight in two seconds using this vicious stuff?” — R. Pimentel, New Zealand

an unsharpened coat-hanger through a
car door at ten feet.

And (with Randy Wanner) he devel¬
oped the world’s first system of disarm¬
ing an attacker holding a gun on you -
this system has been studied and used by
cops all over the world for ten years. Bob
and Randy developed their disarming tac¬
tics by pointing guns loaded with “Red-
Jet” simunition at each other and fir¬
ing. Randy nearly lost an ear. Bob nearly
got a wax bullet between the eyes. It was
the most viciously-real training anyone
had ever done with weapons - and they
have the scars to prove it.

But... it’s Bob’s hand-to-hand
fighting skills that have won him the
awesome and unreserved respect he now
has in the fighting world.

He realized long ago that a little guy
actually has advantages against a bigger
opponent. Think of the big guy as a bat¬
talion of tanks with no infantry sup¬
port. They will knock the hell out of
other tanks, crush buildings and annihi¬
late bridges. But a squad of enemy sol¬
diers moving fast on foot (and “under the
tanks radar”) planting plastic explosives
by hand, would rip a gaping hole right
up the middle of the tanks. Without suf¬
fering a casualty.

You see, big guys are confident from
the chest up. All their lives, they’ve used
their size, weight and superior strength
to crush opponents. But from their waist
down. .. they ’re as vulnerable as kittens.

Having someone like Bob teach you
the dirty tricks and brutal finishing
strikes he’s learned from years of real
fighting... well, it’s simply the BEST
education you could ever wish for. Lit¬
erally in just one short hour , Bob can take
you from zero to one thousand on the
scale of being dangerous.

His stuff is that good.

So here’s what I have for you: I
hauled Bob Taylor down to the filming
studio here in Visalia just last week, and
spent two days videotaping the little bas¬
tard as he revealed every fighting secret
he has.

I am frankly astonished he has re¬
vealed so much, to tell you the truth. I
figured he’d give us a “taste” of his “Bag
O’ Nasty Tricks”. .. but he just dropped
the whole thing on us. Didn’t hold back
even one secret.

I respect him for that. Other fighters
have been hounding Bob for years to give
up his secrets - and he’s just smiled that
little grimace he has, and refused. These
secrets have been his “ticket” to a very
full and exciting career as a soldier, cop,
detective, bodyguard and bounty hunter.
No one, big or small, could stand against
him in a fight.

And now, we have everything he
knows, packed tight in 90 minutes of the
most breathtaking footage you’ve ever
seen. Here’s a sample of what you’re
about to see:

Where the most vulnerable targets
are on a big man. .. spots you can eas¬
ily get to without being touched by him
in return!

• How to take out a larger attacker
“in close”... without ever striking
above his waist.

• How to crush any attacker’s feet
with a single stomp! (Do it wrong,
as most martial artists do, and you’ll
just piss him off. Do it the way
Bob shows you, and his feet will
collapse like socks full of crushed
walnuts.)

• How to use the psychological
advantage you have against an
attacker who thinks he’s going to rip
you up easily. (Big surprise for him,
nice tidy 2-second fight for you.)

• How to never get hurt yourself

in a fight, even if you go against
Mr. Universe!

• How to line up your best physi¬
cal weapons to send him in¬
stantly into a world of intense,
blinding pain! (The most unusual
- and brutally effective - use of
thumbs, fingernails, elbows, knees
and feet you’ve ever witnessed!
Easy to learn, simple to use, too.)

• Why the most devastating head¬
butt you can deliver does NOT
require any strength. (Bob
demonstrates by wrapping four
flooring tiles - “strength factor”
of 11.2, more than a human
skull! - with a layer of rubber to
simulate skin... and then obliterat¬
ing it with a single head-butt.
Amazing proof you won’t ever
forget when you need it...)

• How to make your attacker
suddenly feel like he’s being
ripped to pieces by a pack of
wild dogs!

• How to break his collar bone
without using your fist! (A neat
trick entirely new to martial arts!)

• How to do exactly what the big
guy NEVER expects you to do in
the first second of a fight -

leaving him without a real strike,
and utterly open to your choice of a
dozen finishing moves!

• How to do more damage in a 2-
second “flurry” of attacking
strikes... than two men can
usually do against one victim!

And a lot more. Bob reveals (for the
first time) why he never cuts his left
thumbnail (this will shock the hell out
of you)... why he prefers to go against
bigger opponents... why so many of the
moves ’’regular” martial artists teach
will actually hurt you as much as your
opponent... and all the sneaky "psycho¬
logical” tricks he uses to fool opponents
in the crucial first seconds of any fight.

This is must-see stuff... for anyone
who wants to know how REAL people
fight. But it’s especially important to see
if you - like Bob, like most guys out there
-know you’re going to be smaller than
the guys you’re likely to come up against
in any dangerous situation.

Here’s what to do now: I’ve arranged
for you to see Bob’s 2-video package- it’s
called “Small Man’s Advantage” - for a
ridiculously-generous "no risk" time. All
you need to do is call 1-800-899-8153 and
tell whoever answers you want “Bob
Taylor’s New Kick-Ass Video Pack¬
age”. You don’t risk a penny. .. because
of this special one-time-only outra-
geously-generous guarantee I’m giving
you (which lets you see everything for
FREE if you choose). But you must put
up your “good faith” money first - that’s
the only way Bob will allow us to do this.
(Like a lot of sought-after fighters, Bob’s
been burned one too many times by slick
marketers, so he’s not taking any chances
even with us.)

You can use your credit card. Your
price for this hour-and-a-half long, su¬
per-packed video is just $69. That’s an
incredible deal considering that you’re
receiving highly specialized “end it now”
fight info that is simply NOT available
anywhere else.

Or, if you prefer to pay by check or
money order (payable to TRS), you can
simply fill out the Priority Order Form
to your right and mail it right away with
your payment. Or, you can just fax the
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to 1-559-732-5537.

No matter what “pre-payment”
method you choose, I will make sure your
video is rushed out by return mail , so
you’ll get it in just a few short days.

When you get it, you will have a full
6 months to watch it, train with it, use
it however you wish, without any risk
at all. If, during your 6-month “trial”,
you decide you don \ t want the video -
for any reason, or for no reason at all -
simply return it (in any condition) and
you’ll receive a prompt refund of your
payment. Just like that. I trust you with¬
out reservation on this. Your word is
gold around here - whatever you decide,
we’ll go with.

That, of course, means that you can
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inbound and outbound lanes of traffic. As the blue lights neared, more German sol¬
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on cue, without a word being spoken, these soldiers snapped a sharp salute as the
buses drove past, rendering arms until well after the last bus had passed.

Needless to say, I was deeply moved. What a show of respect for fellow soldiers!
Soldier to Soldier, rendering honor and respect! Our allies, our comrades, those
who know the price that some have to pay for freedom did not have to be asked or
prompted, it came from their character and soldiering heart!

May God bless and watch over all soldiers and their loved ones as they stand in
harm’s way for us!

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Baghdad Bob: Missing in Actinn

Baghdad Bob (Sahaf Mohammed Saeed) is the Rodney Dangerfield of Third
World mouthpieces.

Make no mistake, Bob was a world-class comedian, using his daily press brief¬
ings to assail the United States and insisting that the infidel coalition forces were
committing suicide at the walls of Baghdad and at Saddam Hussein airport — at
the same moment, television viewers were watching coalition tanks and troops cap¬
ture the airport and city.

Bob still “gets no respect:” The U.S.-led coalition issued a deck of cards with the
photos of 55 “most wanted” members of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Saddam is the
Ace of Spades and even his half-brother Barzan is the “5” of Clubs.

But Baghdad Bob didn’t get his own card!

Some choice Baghdad Bob quotes:

“My feelings — as usual — we will slaughter them all.”

“God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.”

“We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.” [recall Iraqis beating Saddam’s
statues and posters with their shoes.]

“We will push those crooks, those mercenaries, back into the swamp.”

“We went into the airport and crushed them. We cleaned the whole place out.

Continued on page 80

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“Picture Two People, Locked In Mortal Combat,

One With Both Hands Wrapped Around The Other’s Neck.
Now, Imagine Yourself In This Scene And Tell Me...
What Would You Do?”

(Hint: Whatever Your Answer, The Odds Are... It’s Wrong!”

K ick him in the groin.” “Strike the arms or
punch the solar plexus.” “Grab the hands.”
“Stomp on his instep”

The list is always the same.

Unfortunately... each answer put your life at risk
in the face of a life-or-death assault.

Why? Because invariably when Tim Larkin asks students
this question at his Target-Focus Training j® bootcamps...

No One—Not Even Trained Martial
Artists—Sees Themselves
As The One Doing The Choking

They’re always the one being choked .

It’s human nature. We shy from victory, from
domination. It’s the way most of us are built.

But think about it... couldn’t this have been the
scenario?

You are surprised by two attackers. You ‘ve
completely disabled the first and now have
control of the second and are about to put
him totally out of commission...

Possible? Of course. It’s just that no one sees it
this way.

Here’s the problem: A thug comes up, places a
knife to your throat and demands your wallet. Taking
him at his word you give him the wallet. He then
proceeds to stab you repeatedly leaving you in a pool
of your own blood, astonished you’ve been stabbed.

What went wrong? Just this. You ASSUMED he
only wanted the wallet. After all, why would anyone
stab someone over a few measly bucks? YOU certainly
wouldn’t do that if you were robbing someone (by the
way... when WAS the last time you robbed someone
and put a knife to their throat ?).

You see, that IS the problem...

You’ve Just Transferred Your Own
Moral Code To A Sociopathic Killer...
And With It, Quite Possibly, Your Life.

See, nothing bothers him. He’s certainly not bound by
your morals. With a total disregard for society and it’s rules,
he has no regret whatsoever in cramming a blade into your
gut... if that’s what it takes to get what he wants.

You stroll around thinking 12 years of martial arts
training or that 6-week self-defense course or the latest
flavor-of-the-month fighting video gives you the edge
you need against someone like this.

Wake up!

You are hopelessly training techniques (then
praying they work) against someone who never
“trained” for you. How many criminals in federal pens
spent years sweating through JKD workouts before
committing their crime? How many are Jujitsu experts?

None. They excel at just one thing: doin’ it. No
training, no practice, no techniques. And these
criminals certainly follow no ‘rules’. So why squander
years fooling yourself with something that only works
“if everyone plays by the rules”?

These are the facts: 98% of us, caught in an
unavoidable violent attack (even those with years of
training ), would never consider doing “whatever it
takes” to survive — like gouging our attacker’s eyes
— even if they were the only targets available, and...
even if it was the only means of saving our own life .
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It shows you how to deal with the ultra violence of
a life-or-death confrontation (understand it’s very easy
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impossible to ramp up to a “killing-set ” if you’ve never
trained for it. By the way, is this you?).

Make no mistake... 'Larkin doesn’t advocate
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“Violence Is Rarely The Answer.

But When It Is... It’s The Only Answer.”

Look... others in Soldier of Fortune try to impress
you with how bad they are, their accomplishments in
the “hidden world” you aren’t privy to, their guru status.

TFT® isn’t about that. It’s not about an individual,
a personality... or a guru.

It’s about a system... one focused totally on you !

Make no bones about it: Larkin’s track record is
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special operations groups. It’s not surprising since he
comes from that world and is well known there. But
since everyone in Soldier of Fortune tries to claim this
you’ll rarely hear him talking about it.

He’s an awesome communicator, fabulous trainer,
and amazingly approachable for someone with his
abilities and credentials. And he’s trained 100’s of
CEOs and others in high-risk positions around the
world — all very real people.

But why is this so important?

Why is TFT® being sought out
in all these other arenas?

Because it works ! Because you “get it”
immediately... as soon as you experience it. There’s
no waiting. It’s usable instantly... and it stays with
you forever , even if you never practice it again.

Take fear. Experience a TFT® training and part way
through this gigantic light bulb explodes in your brain.
Boom... you get it... you understand why there’s no reason
to be fearful in any type of confrontation again. Fear is
simply gone... instantly... and forever (by the way it’s not
magic, you’ve got the ability inside vou right now ).

Here’s what TFT 9 is about: the key to the system
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What really excites Larkin is the fact that if these
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dedicated reader of Soldier of Fortune magazine who
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Look, Larkin is swamped and realizes he can’t begin
to reach everyone. While he’d love to have you as a
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Not some sales letter in disguise, this is truly a
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In the Guide, Larkin covers things like:

• The secret to success in any confrontation or fight.
Understand this principle... and you win . Without it.,
you lose. IPs as simple as that

9 Why it’s a huge mistake to train as if you can predict
your attacker’s next move... even though everyone
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• Why focusing on a technique or methodology
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9 Why defeating an assailant has nothing to do with your
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• Why you can’t learn a hodgepodge collection of
lethal techniques and expect to recall even one
of them (let alone the one you need) in a life-or-
death struggle.

If you’ve spent years training techniques but still
aren’t sure of what might happen face-to-face with an
assailant, if you can’t imagine why physical skills are
not critical to success in a determined sociopathic
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Market Bombings

Central Command has come to a tentative con¬
clusion that Saddam Hussein’s regime deliber¬
ately bombed two markets in Baghdad during

the war to create civilian deaths it blamed on the alliance.

The conclusion is based on more than the oddity that two

markets happened to be bombed during business hours with¬
in two days of each other. The Sha’ab Market exploded 26
March, the Nasser on 28 March. The conclusion also goes
beyond the fact that the United States picked up intelligence
reports before the war that the Ba’ath Party planned to bomb
Shi’ite neighborhoods and blame it on the allies.

The command has studied a wide variety of satellite
images of the markets, before and after the explosions. The
damage is inconsistent with either a Tomahawk missile or a
2,000-pound satellite-guided bomb that were sent to
Baghdad during that time. Instead, the damage is consistent
with a homemade bomb and a small munition.

“We do not believe we did that,” said a senior allied offi¬

cer. “The supposition now is that it was self-inflicted as a
propaganda thing. They blew up a bomb in their market for
propaganda.”

The officer said commanders have looked at aircraft sor¬

ties that day over Baghdad and believe they can account for
every dispensed munition.

“The images that we have looked at of the damage looks
more like a garden variety car bomb,” said the officer. “Both
markets had bomb signatures that did not look like death
from above.”

Update

We reported in recent issues about problems maiming
the Air Force’s ultramodern Combined Air Operations
Center (CAOC) at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.
An internal Air Force report told of personnel shortages
and a general lack of experience by people rotating in and
out. It also said the Saudis kept limits on the number of
CAOC troops manning the supercomputers that manage a
complex air campaign.

The Air Force told us at the time that the problems were
being fixed.

Operation Iraqi Freedom seemed to prove the point. The
center managed one of the most intricate air wars ever. Early

statistics indicate few munitions went astray. Only one fixed-
wing aircraft was definitely shot down by hostile fire — an A-
10 Thunderbolt flying close-air support over Baghdad in the
war’s final days.

The Saudis are politically sensitive about their role in
the war. They did not allow their airstrips to launch strike
missions.

But they were relatively open about the fact that the
CAOC hosted the air war nerve center. No reporters were
allowed, but Brig. Gen. Ron Rand, the Air Force’s chief
spokesman, set up camp at Prince Sultan base and sent out
press releases noting specific bombing missions. Lt, Gen.
T. Michael Moseley, Central Command’s top air boss, held
a video press conference from the base, giving it more
exposure.

On 2 April, the Air Force issued talking points to officers
to educate them.

“The CAOC is a modern weapon system that gives the
Combined Forces Air Component Commander a powerful
and unique C2 [command and control] asymmetric advan¬
tage over the Iraqi regime and military,” the “Aim Points”
handout says.

Speicher Update

A spokeswoman for the family of missing Navy pilot Capt.
Michael Scott Speicher tells us the U.S. military is not doing
enough to resolve the fate of the only missing serviceman
from the 1991 Persian Gulf war.

Cindy A. Laquidara, the spokeswoman, said all the
Pentagon will say about the case is that it is still looking in
Iraq for people or documents that may shed light on the case.

“The search for Scott is more deserving of staffing than
the search for weapons of mass destruction,” Mrs. Laquidara
said. “It’s more time-critical, and it’s a great debt that we have
to our servicemen.

“We’re asking it be given the highest priority,” she said.

Asked about the hunt for Capt. Speicher, Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said earlier this week: “If and
when we have anything to announce, we will. We, needless
to say, have teams of people who have very much focused on
the question of prisoners of war.”

Mr. Rumsfeld said there has been “some good success

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thus far” and that tl we are working
on the problems and hoping that
well have success.”

Capt. Speicher was declared
killed in action in January 1991 after
his F-18 was shot down over
Baghdad. After intelligence reports
indicated he survived the shoot-
down, he was reclassified twice, the
final time to “missing-captured.”

Diego Bombers

The Indian Ocean island of Diego
Garcia has played a major unsung
role in military operations in Iraq.

We obtained some photographs of B-
2 and B-52 bombers on Diego Garcia
showing Air Force operations.

The B-2 was not around for
Desert Storm, nor was much of the
Navy’s and Air Force’s ability to drop
precision-guided weapons. That put
tremendous pressure on air-planners
to husband resources. Only the F-117 stealth bomber could
penetrate downtown Baghdad in the early days.

But in Operation Iraqi Freedom, the B-2 Stealth bomber
allowed planners to send massive firepower over the capital
from the first night of the conflict.

Palace Paper

An officer who was inside one of Iraqi dictator Saddam
Hussein’s many palaces says they don’t have all the com¬

forts of home.

“Gold-plated bathrooms are nice, but the toilet paper is
not up to our standards,” the officer said.

Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough are Pentagon reporters.
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I merica's anti-terror campaign in
Afghanistan, which began in
October 2001, has been dubbed the
Super Bowl of Special Operations
Forces (SpecOps). Army Green
Berets, Navy SEALs, Air Force
Special Tactics teams and British and
Australian Special Air Service Operators
— even CIA paramilitary teams (some
two dozen personnel) — did the lion's
share of the work to topple the fundamen¬
talist Taliban regime and to “drain the
swamp” that served as a breeding ground
for the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

But if Afghanistan was the SpecOps
Super Bowl, Iraq has proven to be the
commando Olympics. Perhaps nowhere
else have SpecOps forces done so many
different kinds of missions for so long and
played such a pivotal role in the collapse
of a totalitarian regime and its army of
protectors.

A top Pentagon official noted at a press
briefing: “It's probably the most effective
and widest use of special operations forces
in recent history, clearly.”

During the Afghan campaign.
Special Operators executed their core
competencies, namely direct action and
liaison with native forces. CIA opera¬
tives and Army Special Forces teams
infiltrated Afghanistan within a few
weeks of the al-Qaeda attack on the
United States to team up with the rag¬
tag — but no less battled-hardened —
Northern Alliance forces to whip them
into the kind of shape that would prove
ultimately decisive against the Taliban
— once and for all.

SpecOps Forces did their liaison and
direct action jobs superbly — even
tossing in a rescue operation to exfil¬
trate several Christian missionaries
held captive for months by the Taliban
in Kabul. The Special Operators broke
new ground with innovative use of air
power as both a tactical and strategic
lever for victory.

If Afghanistan can be called success¬
ful, Iraq could be called a slam-dunk.
The SpecOps teams that slipped into the
north of Iraq, well before the Bush
Administration began its United Nations
dance, were there to pull together rival
Kurdish factions and forge a fighting
force that could put pressure on Saddam
Hussein’s Ba’athist regime, if not sweep
it out of Northern Iraq all together. CIA
operatives had been active in the area
since the end of Operation Desert
Storm, so the ground was fertile for the
Special Operators who flew in from
Turkey to ply their dark trade.

When hostilities become imminent.

An Overview Of How

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They Saved the Day

Australian SAS Operators take part in an
operation to find and secure 51 Iraqi Air Force
Mig fighter aircraft found at an undisclosed
location in western Iraq, 18 April 2003 .

Air Force Combat Controller teams, spe¬
cialists at calling in airstrikes, flowed
into the region to act as forward spotters
for the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters orga¬
nized weeks earlier by the Green Berets.
The northern front was set.

Meanwhile, commando teams —
including British SAS troops — infil¬
trated northwestern and western Iraq
from forward bases in Jordan and pos¬
sibly Syria to cut communications lines
along the border and to neutralize Iraqi
mobile SCUD missile launches. The
specter of a chemical-laden SCUD
attack on Tel Aviv put sharp focus on
this portion of the SpecOps mission.
Additionally, observation posts were
scouted and marked for destruction and
airfields surveilled for a quick take¬
down when the balloon finally went up.

In the south, teams reconned border
crossings, the Ramaylah oil fields and
the ports at Um Qasr and Basra. The
early infiltration of Special Operators of
all stripes into Iraq’s desert wadis and
city rooftops proved vital in “shaping
the battlefield” for conventional forces
to launch their assault unimpeded.

That assault began 20 March when
Marine and Army Cavalry units pierced
Iraq’s border with Kuwait and thrust
northward to Baghdad. The first shot in
the war, of course, was the surprise
assault on a Saddam hideout in the
capitol spotted at the last minute on 19
March. Some reports indicate that
SpecOps Forces, hunkering down in a
Baghdad OP, played a role in the strike.

During combat operations, SpecOps
units sprang into lethal action. Forward
observation posts were destroyed, air¬
fields were seized in the west and the
north, and communications lines were
severed. In the south, SpecOps troops
and Marine Reconnaissance forces cap¬
tured oil fields, preventing their sabo¬
tage, and protecting the vital revenue
stream for the Iraqi people.

In the south, Navy SEAL teams oper¬
ating alongside elite Polish special
operations forces seized the port of
Umm Qasr, a key transshipment point
for Iraqi oil. Soon after, the SEALs and
their British and Australian counter¬
parts secured the port, eliminated Iraqi
holdouts and de-mined its waters with
specially trained dolphins. Within days,
the port was ready for ships to unload
humanitarian aid.

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Infiltrating Iraq

TURKEY

Locations in the country where
special operations forces were
active during the combat phase.

IRAN

Syrian Border

Australian SAS
nab 60 fleeing
Iraqi officers.

SYRIjit

Handitha dam

Secured by spec
ops team after
war planners
fear it may be
blown to slow
U.S. advance.

Tharthar

Palace

April 2 raid nets
a trove of

Tharthar

Lake

H2i

JORDAN

Bashar airfield

Army and Air Force
teams help open
the Northern Front,
aiding the 173rd
Airborne Brigade’s
arrival via air drop.

Spec ops teams in the city
may have provided intel
j for the March 19 attempt to
®-“decapitate” the Iraqi regime.

Lake

Razzaza

ftgrirj

Western Iraq

Spec ops
teams secure
two airfields
used to store
and launch
long-range
missiles.

# Najaf

Nasiriyah

Navy SEALs and
Army Rangers
rescue Pfc.
Jessica Lynch.

SAUDI

ARABIA

Ramayiah
oil field

Secured by
Marine
recon team.

Um Qasr

Key port seized
by Navy SEALs and
Polish special forces.

KUWAIT

Map by Natttanie! Levine

West of Baghdad, Aussie SAS
Operators also discovered more than
50 buried Soviet-made Migs, along
with a chemical-proof bunker and a
huge cache of anti-aircraft guns and
munitions.

Meanwhile, Reconnaissance Mar¬
ines pounced on the Ramayiah oil
field just north of the Kuwaiti bor¬
der, one of Iraq’s largest, to root out
Iraqi saboteurs and dismantled
explosives at oil wells rigged for
demolition. The field was key to
ensuring a stable revenue flow for a
liberated Iraq to get in its feet.

As the Army’s 3/7 Cavalry unit
screamed northward, less than a
week into the war, U.S. SpecOps
teams were already taking out Iraqi
Army observation posts in key cities
north of the advance, including
Najaf, an important crossroads on
the approaches to Baghdad. At the
same time, Army Green Berets and
Air Force Combat Controllers helped
open a northern front, aiding the
173rd Airborne Brigade’s 1,000-man
parachute drop on the Bashar airfield
near Kirkuk, the largest U.S. air¬
borne operation since World War II.

SpecOps Owned It

As other SpecOps teams took-
down two airfields in western Iraq,
bases reportedly used to store and
launch long-range missiles, CENT-
COM deputy operations chief
Brigadier General Vincent Brooks declared in a 31 March
briefing that U.S. forces controlled the entire western portion
of Iraq. At the time, there were no known conventional forces
operating there. SpecOps owned it.

On 1 April, after coverage of the war had turned sour and
armchair generals began loudly second-guessing the war
plan, Special Operators came up with a big win for the coali¬
tion. In a daring overnight raid, Navy SEALS, supported by
Army Rangers and Marines, swept into a hospital in
Nasiriyah and snatched Private First Class Jessica Lynch who
had been held captive for more than a week. The rescue was
the first successful POW snatch in recent history.

A day later, another team raided a key presidential palace
55 miles south of Baghdad, called Tharthar, netting a treasure
trove of intelligence information. Still other SpecOps teams
secured the Handitha dam, which war planners worried
could be blown by Iraqi forces in a last-ditch effort to bog
down the U.S. advance northward.

Also, they became menacing hackers, unleashing
viruses to immobilize enemy computers at numerous
locations. Chinese-built fiber optics communications
were tapped into, allowing friendly forces to monitor
Iraqi military comms.

Iraqi personnel assets were recruited to provide informa¬
tion on the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein and his coterie
of henchmen.

As conventional forces swept into Baghdad, SpecOps
shifted from hobbling the Ba’athist regime, to hunting down

— including assassinating — its members and personnel
from the Republican Guard. Teams scoured the capitol city
and towns in northern and southern Iraq for party leaders,
top scientists and intelligence officials.

Australian SAS troops got into the act near the Syrian bor¬
der, nabbing 60 senior Iraqi military officers trying to skip
the border with $600,000.

But as the commandos continue to collect information on
chemical and biological weapons and hunt down Saddam and
his henchmen, they have also shifted to security and stabili¬
ty operations, guarding key commercial sites in Baghdad and
delivering medical aid to hospitals badly short of supplies.
As the shooting war winds down, Special Operations Forces
will no doubt continue their covert missions, finding new
information on terrorist groups with ties to the Hussein
regime and ensuring that the dictator’s legacy has been
securely locked into distant history.

As we go to press, American SpecOps Operators have cap¬
tured a half-brother of Saddam Hussein, Barzan Ibrahim
Hasan, whom Brigadier General Vincent Brooks says is a top
advisor to Saddam who possesses intimate knowledge of the
regime’s inner workings.

As one U.S. Army official commented, “Our conventional
forces would never have gone this far so quickly without
them [SpecOps Operators].”

Christian Lowe is a staff writer at Army Times Publishing
Company. ^

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THE WAR IN IRAQ:
OPENING SALVOS

HDAD

^Ministry
of Planning

KEY EVENTS Sequence approximate; all times local

Thursday, March 20

©Tomahawk and aircraft
strikes begin at 5:30 a.m.
©Two F-117AS drop two
2,000-pound bunker-busting
bombs on a site in Baghdad,
©Patriot anti-missile batteries
intercept at least two Iraqi tactical
ballistic missiles. A third strikes
near Camp Commando, causing
no damage.

©Iraqis set fire to less than 10
wells in the Rumaylah oil field.
©1st Marine Expeditionary
Force units cross border with
mission to capture southern oil

fields and ports.

©The Army’s 3rd Infantry
Division crosses into Iraq from
Kuwait heading for Baghdad.
©CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter
crashes in Kuwait south of
Umm Qasr, killing 12 U.S. and
British Marines.

Friday, March 21

©Coalition forces seize H2
and H3 airfields in western Iraq.
©A Marine is shot and killed
during the capture of an oil
field, the first combat death of
the war.

©U.S. and British Marines
capture ports of Faw and Umm
Qasr and the towns of Safwan

and Zubyar. One Marine is
killed during the capture of
Umm Qasr.

© “Shock and awe" campaign
begins, involving more than
700 coalition aircraft and at
least 320 sea-launched cruise
missiles. Navy planes flying
from carriers in the Persian Gulf
and Mediterranean Sea joined
Air Force planes in targeting
cities of Baghdad, Kirkuk,
Mosul and Tikrit.

©The 3rd Brigade of the
Army’s 3rd Infantry Division
encounters artillery fire in the
evening as it nears Nasiriyah, a
key city on the main road to
Baghdad.

Nathaniel Levine, Times staff

Sources: Defense Department, USA Today, Associated Press

3/7 Cav
Lays Ttack
Through Iraq

by Adam Geibel

From wire service reports, originally appearing
on Jim Dunnigan’s “Strategypage," online at
www.strategypage.com.

Reprinted with permission.

One Cavalry Squadron has been tear¬
ing-up the Iraqi armor fleet with remark¬
able success. The 3rd Squadron 3 7th
Cavalry Regiment , is the Divisional
Cavahy for the 3rd Infantry Division. The
unit motto, “Garryowen," is a reminder of
the unit's initial service on America's west¬
ern frontier during the Indian Wars.The
unit was originally constituted on 28 July
1866 in the regular Army as a Company
“C” 7th Cavalry Regiment and has con¬
tinued in service since then. After decades
in Germany during the Cold War ; the 3rd
Squadron was reassigned on 16 February
1996 to the 3rd Infantry Division and acti¬
vated at Fort Stewart , GA.

T he role of divisional cavalry is primar¬
ily out front or on the flanks, screen¬
ing the parent unit from and looking
for the enemy. One of the first con¬
tacts was with Iraqi irregulars on 23
March and after responding with
artillery, the Cavalry overran a pink
Japanese-made pickup truck with a light
machinegun. While cavalry medics treat¬
ed the black-uniformed driver, an
embedded CNN reporter noticed that
the vehicle had a New York Police
Department bumper sticker pasted up
on the right corner of the windshield.
“A” Troop was leading the 3rd

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Coalition airfield
^ Airstrikes

City under
coalition control

A Republican Guard
Divisions (about
8,000 troops)

Locations of troops
approximate.

TURKEY

Aircraft sorties
from the carriers
—; Harry S. Truman and
.AA Theodore Roosevelt
and cruise missiles
from warships in the
Mediterranean Sea.

Miles

March 25-26 Vicious
sandstorms across central
Iraq slow the advance of the
3rd Infantry Division and
I Marine Expeditionary Force.

Rutbah

JORDAN

~ Naw cruise

Navy cruise
missiles from
warships in
the Red Sea.

DOWNTOWN BAGHDAD

SAUDI

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OUTSIDE IRAQ

March 22 Six British troops and a U.S.
Navy officer die in a midair collision of
two British Royal Naw helicopters over
the northern Persian Gulf.

March 22 One U.S. Army officer dies
and several others are wounded by a
grenade attack in a base camp of the
101st Airborne Division in Kuwait near
the Iraqi border. A U.S. Air National
Guard officer later dies from injuries
suffered in the attack.

March 23 A Patriot missile shoots
down a British Royal Air Force
Tornado GR4 fighter jet near the

SYRIA

Kirkul

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officials say Is March 27 A Patriot missile shoots

linked to al-patctes ’ down an Iraqi missile fired at Kuwait
from southern Iraq.

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ikrit

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KARBALA
March 24 An Army
Apache attack helicopter
crashes near the city. Its
two crew members-are
captured by Iraqi forces.
March 25 3rd Infantry
Division forces engage in
a sharp firefipht with
elements of the Iraqi
Medina Division near
Karbala.

March 25 The

Army’s 3rd Squadron,

7th Cavalry, engages
in a daylong running
firefight with Iraqi
forces in the vicinity
of Najaf. For the first
time, two M-1A1
Abrams tanks are lost
to enemy fire, but all
crewmen escape.

Tharthar

Lake

BAGHDAD

March 27 A

column of Iraqi
armored vehicles
attempting to leave
Baghdad is
destroyed by
coalition airstrikes.

Lake

Razzaza

Karbala

r°

A Medina
Division

IRAN

March 27 The

I Marine Expeditionary

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Baghdad

Division

A Kul

March 26 An Air

Force F-16 fires a
missile that hits a
U.S. Patriot
missile battery
about 30 miles
south of Najaf.

chemical protect ive^ujts in an
hospiiaf.’-
March 27 Marines engage in house-
to-house fighting with Iraqi forces,
possibly Republican Guard troops.

BASRA

March 25 British forces
destroy 19 Iraqi tanks in
two engagements near
the city.

March 27 British forces
destroy 14 Iraq tanks
attempting to break out
of Basra.

March 27 Near Nasiriyah, U.S.
troops secure Tallil air base, the
largest airport outside Baghdad,
and erect a sign that reads, “Bush
International Airport"

lations Center

^Council of Ministers

^Presidential Palace - - ^ ; ,
Special Security
Organization Armory;

sources: Defense Department, USA Today, Associated Press

Aircraft sorties Ircni
carriers Abraham
Lincoln, Constellation
and Kitty Hawk and
cruise missiles from
warships in the
Persian Gulf.

Al Jabertf _
Air Base Camp"
Arifjan

Nathaniel Levine, Times staff

Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment in a growing sandstorm on
the night of the 24th, strung out for 15 to 25 miles beside the
western bank of the Euphrates, when they ran into about 200
Iraqis dug-in on either side of the road. The Iraqis opened-up
with small arms, mortars and machine guns. The six Paladin
155mm self-propelled howitzers attached to the Squadron
fired one round each at the Iraqi positions and a pair of A-lOs
followed up with strafing runs. By 2130 hours, the road was
clear again.

The Squadron made contact against just before midnight.
At the edge of Al Faysaliyph, just west of the Euphrates,
dozens of militiamen hit the column with RPG and machine-

gun fire. The cavalry drove into a “machine-gun alley,” with
rounds coming at them from both sides of the road. The
squadron commander’s Humvee driver emptied two maga¬
zines and discharged his M203 twice during that ride.

The column dispersed, some elements taking to side
streets while the lead unit headed for a bridge. However, it
collapsed under an Abrams Ml-Al and although the tank
dropped 8 feet, the crew escaped uninjured. The squadron
commander then had no choice but to turn his unit around,
at night and under fire.

In the darkness and confusion, two tanks and a fuel truck
rolled into ditches but there were no serious casualties. The

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tank that collapsed the bridge and one that went into a ditch were
recovered, but one tank and the fuel truck had to be abandoned.
Squadron commander Lieutenant Colonel Terry Ferrell estimated
that his troopers killed 150 Iraqi militia that night. Other estimates
placed the tally at 300 enemy dead.

Late on the 26th, word came that intelligence reports indicated
that a 1,000-strong Iraqi convoy was headed south towards the
Squadron’s positions northeast of Najaf, about 60 miles south of
Baghdad. The column was believed to have been elite Republican
Guard units using the cover of a heavy sandstorm to protect them
from Coalition aviation. B-52 bombers struck the column and dis¬
rupted whoever was trying to advance on the cavalry.

After 72 hours in contact, the Squadron pulled back on the

3/7 Cavalry Troopers on the commo section's M-113, with
the 0H-58D Kiowas Squadron's D and E Troops parked in the
background . On 22 March, three ofD Troop's six Kiowas got
shot-up near the two Euprhates River bridges north of As
Samawah — but all made it hack safely:

KEY EVENTS

The second full week of
Operation Iraqi Freedom.

TURKEY

Aircraft sorties
from the carriers
Harry S. Truman
and Theodore
Roosevelt in the
Mediterranean Sea.

Coalition airfield

*****

^ Atrstrikes

. .. "'“'..M

City under
coalition control

§3 Army's 3rd Infantry Division
0 Army’s 101st Airborne Division
@ Army’s 82nd Airborne Division

era

Q Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade

^ ! Marine Expeditionary Force

Locations of troops
approximate,

Miles

March 30 Coalition
forces destroy a
gathering of paramilitary
forces in near Rutbah.

JORDAN

March 29 A huge explosion
rocks a market in a working-class
neighborhood of Baghdad, killing
58 people. Iraqi officials blame the
United States, but U.S. officials
cannot immediately confirm the
source of the blast,

April 2 Kurdish forces in
northern Iraq, backed by
B-52 bombers, fight with
Iraqi troops and seize the
village ofKanilan. Iraqi
forces continue to fall back
toward Mosul and Kirkuk.

SYRIA April 2 Forward elements of

the 3rd Infantry Division push
through the Karbala Gap
between the city of Karbala and
Lake Razzaza and move to
within 30 miles of Baghdad after
coalition forces inflict heavy
damage on Iraqi Republican
Guard forces.

NEAR KARBALA

April 2 An Army UH-60 Black Hawk
helicopter is shot down near Karbala.
There are conflicting reports about how
many U.S. troops are aboard and how
many might be dead.

April 2 An F/A-18C Hornet from the
aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk goes down
over Iraq shortly before midnight. The
pilot is missing.

NAJAF

March 29 A suicide bomber detonates an
explosives-laden taxi at a checkpoint near Najaf,
killing four U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division
soldiers, in the first such incident of the war.
April 1 Troops of the 3rd ID open fire on a
vehicle after it fails to stop at a checkpoint. The
vehicle is found to be carrying 15 Iraqi civilians,
10 of whom are killed.

April 2 Elements of the Army's 101st Airborne
Division take fire from Iraqi paramilitary fighters
holed up in the Ali Mosque, one of the holiest
shrines in the Shi a branch of Islam.

March 28 U.S. special
operations troops join with
6,000 Kurdish fighters in
northeast Iraq to overpower
some 700 radical Islamic
Kurds believed to have ties to
al-Qaida.

March 31 U.S. Army Special
Forces troops capture what
coalition officials say is the
former site of a terrorist poison
factory run by the militant
group Ansar al Islam in the
town of Sarget.

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OUTSIDE IRAQ

March 29 In the first significant
addition to coalition forces since
the war began, 2,300 Marines
from the 24th Marine
Expeditionary Unit land in Kuwait
with plans to deploy quickly in
southern Iraq.

April 1 An S-3B Viking jet veers
off the flight deck of the carrier
Constellation in the Persian Gulf.
The two crew members eject
safely and are rescued.

April 1 A Marine Corps AV-8B
Harrier jet crashes in the Persian
Gulf white trying to land on the
amphibious assault ship Nassau.
The pilot ejects safely and is
rescued.

April 2 First of 30 ships carrying
equipment for 4th Infantry Division
arrives at Shuaiba Port, Kuwait.
Thousands of soldiers orocessrng
through Camp Wolf. The 4th ID
and its task force will bring 33,000
soldiers to the theater.

Tikrit

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IRAQ

April 2 The I Marine Expeditionary Force
essentially destroys the Baghdad Division of
the Iraqi Republican Guard near Kut, then
crosses to the east bank of the Tigris River
and proceeds on the right flank of the coalition
advance to the outskirts ot Baghdad.

April 2 Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, taken
prisoner by the Iraqis shortly after the war
began, is rescued from a hospital in
Nasiriyah by U.S. special operations forces.
U.S, troops also find the remains of 11
bodies, some of which could be Americans.

BAGHDAD

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Saddam
International
Airport ^palace

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facility

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BAGHDAD

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Palace

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complex

SOUTHERN IRAQ
March 30 A Marine UH-1 Huey
helicopter crashes at an
undisclosed location, killing ail
three crew members aboard,
April 2 A Navy F-14A Tomcat
develops mechanical trouble and
crashes. Its two crew members
eject safely and are rescued,

March 31 A-10
Waithog tank-killer
jets begin flying strike
missions from the
captured Tallil airfield.

BRITISH

FORCES

Routes,

Palace

April 3 Elements ot the 3rd infantry
Division surge forward onto ^he grounds
jaj:$addam International Airport, about
nine miles southwest of the Baghdad city
center, in the late evening. |

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SAUDI

ARABIA

Aircraft sorties from
carriers Abraham Lincoln,
Constellation and Kitty
Hawk and cruise missiles
from warships in the
Persian Gulf.

Safwan

KUWAIT

Umm

Qasr

March 31 British troops
discover a huge Iraqi arms
cache about four miles
west of Basra, including
more than a dozen SA-7
surface-to-air missiles.

March 29 The

first British ship
with humanitarian
aid arrives in the
port of Umm Qasr.

Faw

Al Salem
Air-Base

Kuwait City

Aircraft sorties
from Kuwait,

Qatar, Diego
Garcia ana other
bases in the region.

Sources: Defense Department, USA Today, Associated Press

Al Jabertf
Air Base

Nathaniel Levine, Times staff

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replaced them on the front line.

At the end of five days of fighting, most of the 3/7th
Cavalry was gathered at Najaf and '‘black” (nearly expended)
on 7.62mm M240 machine-gun ammunition and fuel. Some
vehicles had only 30 minutes’ of fuel left, although the
Squadron had used only about one-eighth of its main-gun
tank rounds. After rearming and refueling on the 28th, the
3/7 Cavalry was ready for the final drive on Baghdad. By the
end of the month the 7th Calvary had taken up positions in
an arc, protecting the western flank of the 3rd Infantry
Division while it moved on Hilla (about 50 miles south of the
southern suburbs of Baghdad).

A hasty 3/7 Cavalry checkpoint near Najaf , with severely reduced
visibility due to a sandstorm.

At the time, no one knew why they hadn’t made contact
with the Republican Guard’s armored units and while
Saddam’s T-72s were on the Air Force’s hit list, the squadron
was sent forward to sniff them out. On 4 April, the 3/7
Cavalry was screening the west flank of other 3rd ID units
storming the Baghdad International Airport. The U.S. Air
Force had identified 22 stationary T-72s ( a battalion’s worth)
3 or 4 kilometers in front of the Cavalry.

“A” Troop was given the mission of taking out the enemy

dusk on the 25th,

“B” Troop (“the

Bonecrushers”) was caught in an ambush of the
near As Samawah, on the west bank of the Euphrates River.
The two Abrams tanks were hit by what their crews first
thought was fire an Iraqi truck-mounted Anti-Tank Gun.
While all of Sergeant First Class Curtis Anderson’s crew
got clear, the driver of Staff Sergeant Charles Kilgore’s tank
was trapped. Private First Class Adam Small’s hatch was
jammed and fire started to lick at the ammunition around
him. Squadron master gunner Sgt. First Class Javier
Camacho moved his tank up to help and, along with
Sergeant Jeremiah Gallegos and Sgt. First Class Steven
Newby, pried open Small’s hatch. Master Gunners are resi¬
dent experts on fixing tempermental tanks and Bradleys,
often capable of working minor miracles.

The same Iraqi weapon system also blew-up a Bradley.
Both tanks and the Bradley were total write-offs, but all

three crews survived.
Intelligence sources began
to warn Coalition troops that black-clad three-man Iraqi
commando teams (“Saddam Fedayeen”) were traveling in
Nissan pickup trucks along the 3rd Infantry Division flanks,
launching broadside attacks from several kilometers away
using the AT-14 system. The theory was that Cavalry’s vehi¬
cles were killed by an AT-14 “Kornet,” a laser beam-riding
missile with automatic command-to-line of sight (SACLOS)
guidance supposedly able to penetrate 1,100 to 1,200 mil¬
limeters of armor from 3.5 kilometers away,

The Lima Army Tank Plant began working around-the-
clock to find a “fix” for the weak spot (the exhaust and air
intake vents at the rear hull). By 12 April 2003, the engi¬
neers had designed, built and shipped 20 sets of steel lou¬
vers that fit over the vents in the rear of the tanks, allowing
air to flow while deflecting missiles or grenades.

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tanks and advanced down the six-lane highway with 10 MlAls and some M2
Bradleys. They saw the Air Force engaging one element on the North side of the
road, but not a second element on the south side. This group was dug-in to hull-
down positions, with barbed-wire in front.

Despite being outnumbered two to one, “A” Troop engaged and from 800 to
1,000 meters away, the Cav opened-fire with their Abrams tanks 1 120mm main
guns, while most of the Iraqi 125mm main gun return fire fell short or flew too
high. The Mis systematically destroyed the Iraqi armor. Even one of “A” Troops
Bradleys destroyed three T-72s, while a second scored two T-72 kills.

One of the Iraqi main gun rounds exploded 25 meters from Troop Commander
Captain Clay Lyle’s tank, rattling it around some. The Iraqis also returned fire
with RPGs and a few artillery shells, but inflicted no casualties.

As dusk approached, “A” Troop pulled back to allow their supporting artillery
and close-air-support jets to pound the Iraqi positions. By 1800 hours, “A” Troop

Continued on page 67

T he American drive was faced with dozens of incidents where Saddam’s
Fedayeen used underhanded tactics and the Cavalry was determined
not to allow themselves to be dragged into a dirty war. The Fedayeen
moved ammunition in civilian trucks, held weapons to their own people’s
heads and pretended to be doctors with asthmatic children. They had also
pretended to surrender, then opened fire at point-blank range. The recom¬
mendation was that soldiers err on the side of caution and put all civilians
down before they got close. Lieutenant Colonel Ferrell had told his Cavalry
troop commanders that they would “fight fairly, we will fight honestly and
we will abide by the laws of land warfare.”

The unit was about 80 miles outside of Baghdad on the morning of the
25th, near the village of Al Faysaliyah, when a young Iraqi boy was caught
in a crossfire. An unarmed Iraqi approached the troopers and begged for aid,
but the unit had just taken fire from nearby buildings. If the boy’s father
would bring the child out, the troopers could give him first-aid.

Embedded photographer Warren Zinn snapped a shot of Private First
Class Joseph Dwyer, a Squadron medic, carrying a wounded Iraqi out of
harm’s way. The photograph would come to symbolize America’s presence
in Iraq. Dwyer, who enlisted because of the terrorist attack on 11 September
2001, scooped-up the child and rushed him to safety. Three of Dwyer’s
brothers are police officers in or near New York City. — A. G.

KEY EVENTS

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April 10 U.S. Marines, acting on a tip that leaders of the Saddam
regime are trying to arrange a meeting on the north side of Baghdad,
engage in fierce fighting with pro-Saddam forces at the imam
Mosque, Azimihyah Palace and the house of a Baath Party leader.

April 9 U.S. Army tanks and personnel
carriers, protected by ciose-air support

over the Tigris River in central Baghdad.

April 9 Coalition tanks enter Firdos
Square in downtown Baghdad, and Iraqi
citizens join U.S. Marines in encircling
a large statue of Saddam Hussein,
which is soon toppled and destroyed.

April 8 Marines of I Marine
Expeditionary Force, pushing
up around the eastern
rim of Baghdad, capture
Rashid military airport.

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April 8-10 The three infantry
battalions of the 3rd Brigade, 3rd
infantry Division attack Hijlah, thus
launching the battle for the last
contested city in southern Iraq.
They are later joined by elements of
the 101st Airborne Division.

April 4 Troops of the 101st
Airborne Division blow up a
statue of Saddam Hussein in
Najaf, part of an effort to win
support from local Shiites who
have long been repressed by
the Saddam regime.

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ft || 28 March at 2200 hours the final
[I bombardment of Ansar al-Islam
UII (‘‘Followers of Islam”) headquar¬
ters in Iraq began. Ansar had been
staging attacks against Kurdish villages
and paramilitary forces, and was known
to have been created and financed by al-
Qaeda in cooperation with Saddam
Hussein and possibly the Iranian gov¬
ernment itself. Ansar had been created
as the Iraqi wing of al-Qaeda’s regional
strategy in the Middle East to fight
American influence, and was suspected
to have a store of chemical and biologi¬
cal weapons.

U.S. Special Operations Forces had
been waiting in the darkness with their
Pesh Merga (“those who face death”)
Kurdish Allies. They waited in the
darkness for more than three hours,
and under cover of the aerial bombard¬
ment, crept forward to their assault
positions. At midnight the word came
and the SF charged up the mountain
with the Pesh Merga.

It was the single largest Special
Operation of the war, reportedly includ¬
ing a division of Pesh Merga, approxi¬
mately 8,000 strong, along with up to 80-
100 Special Operators from a joint task
force set up expressly for this operation.

The Kurdish warriors had been
fighting a guerrilla war against Saddam
and his Ba’ath party for almost four
decades, and were ready for some pay¬
back. Seven months before, U.S. Special
Forces had reconned the area to pin¬
point the locations of the Ansar cave
headquarters.

Ansar was the organization created
in the wake of 11 September 2001 to
fight a Jihad against the West, as part of
al-Qaeda’s strategy to create an armed

Pesh Merga volunteer fighters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
walk past burning corpses in a pickup next to a bridge in the village of
Khazer 4 April 2003 on the edge of northern Iraq '$ Kurdish enclave.

SF and Kurdish Pesh Merga (PUK) Fighters Rout Al-Qaeda

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uprising across the entire Middle East.
It had launched a foiled assassination
attempt against the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan (PUK) Prime Minister,
Barham Salih, in April 2002, and was
running guerrilla operations against
both of the two parties that control
Kurdistan, the PUK, and Kurdistan
Democratic Party (KDP). It had seized
local villages, forcing women into tradi¬
tional dress and out of school, and cen¬
soring communications with the out¬
side world. It launched drives to recruit
local Kurds to fight against the U.S. and
its Kurdish allies.

Ansar assassinated one of the
founders of the PUK, Mr. Shawkat Haji
Mushir on 8 February, as part of a
reported collaborative effort with
Saddam Hussein to rid the North of his
political opponents in preparation for
war with the U.S.

Ansar officers included members of
Saddam Hussein’s feared Mukhabarat
Intelligence Service. The PUK and KDP
had set up a joint anti-terrorist center in
Erbil, and now, in a coalition with the
U.S., were ready for revenge. The Pesh
Merga fighters had been trained in
schools started by U.S. Special Forces a
decade previously and had been work¬
ing with Special Operations forces for
the past several months.

Tough Times For Ansar

The Ansar positions had been under
fire for two weeks. Much of the town of
Komal below was flattened. The Ansar
hilltop positions were rubble. More
than 60 dead from the Komal
Fundamentalist Group lay in the rubble
with several Ansar fighters. Komal,
which cooperated with Ansar by acting
as a go-between with Kurdish allies of
the U.S. by ostensibly maintaining offi¬
cial relations with them, had been vir¬
tually annihilated. SF had been direct¬
ing the airstrikes with deadly precision
while patrolling the roads outside the
town. According to SF NCO’s at the
scene, Ansar positions in the town were
“bombed flat, and then we moved in.”
Ansar had withdrawn to the mountains
above the town, however, and the fight
had just begun.

Airstrikes during the week-long bat¬
tle were coordinated with Tomahawk
missile launches from Naval platforms
in the Red Sea. More than 40
Tomahawks were reportedly launched
on 21 March, the first day of bombard-

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ment. The Tomahawks hit dead-center on the hilltop redoubts
commanding the road leading up into the mountains and
Ansar headquarters. FA-18 fighter-bombers from the American
Aircraft Carriers U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln
and U.S.S. Constellation launched hellfire missiles and
dropped precision-guided munitions. B-52s from Diego Garcia
maintained a devastating barrage from above, including GPS-
guided high explosives aimed at terrorist centers in town, and
anti-personnel cluster munitions and bunker-busting bombs
directed at the mountians. These precision-guided bombs,
while not as accurate as the Tomahawks, flattened town defen¬
sive positions and sent shockwaves rolling across the hillsides
and through penetrated caves, instantly killing those inside.

The attack was supported by AC-130 gunships coordinat¬
ed by U.S. Air Force Combat Control Teams (CTT) on the
ground, raining a hail of 20MM and 105MM shells from the
night sky. Approximately six U.S. Army Special Forces A-
Teams from Task Force Viking led the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan Pesh Merga fighters through the town and straight
up the mountain, in a multi-pronged attack against the
approximately 600 guerrillas trained in Iran and Afghanistan
to fight for al-Qaeda. The Green Berets were supported by
Air Force Combat CCTs and by miniature predator-like
drones. The battle would last for three days. Most of the
Ansar leadership had fled to Iran at this point, but they left
behind a majority of their men to fight to their deaths.

What Ansar had not already fled during the aerial cam¬
paign put up stiff resistance, retreating to a second line of
defense to exchange fire with the advancing U.S.-led coali¬
tion. Ansar fired their full arsenal of heavy weapons down on
their attackers, including mortars, Katyusha rocket launch¬
ers, anti-tank, and anti-aircraft guns.

A Trio 01 Snipers “SmaketT

U.S. forces had to lug their heavy weapons up the moun¬
tain straight into the hail of lead and high explosives, since
their thin-skinned vehicles could not survive the firefight.
According to SF sources, they employed Barrett 50-caliber
sniper rifles to “smoke” at least three Ansar snipers who
stalled the initial attack for hours. SF followed up with 60mm
mortars and Mark 19 20mm grenade launchers as they quick¬
ly took the first hilltops leading to the Shenerwin Mountains
on the Iranian border.

By Saturday, the Ansar fighters had withdrawn to their
third — and final — line of defense on the mountaintops,
within site of watchful Iranian soldiers guarding the border
who covered the retreat of several Ansar fighters from the
Molla Khord checkpoint.

The following day the battle raged as the Pesh Merga
employed RPGs, DSK 12.7mm machine guns, and 14.7 anti¬
aircraft guns to dislodge Ansar from the snowline. SF was
able to bring up HMMWVs equipped with .50-caliber

(below) Iraqi Kurdish fighters watch U.S. soldiers of the 173rd
Airborne Brigade as they leave the airstrip in the Kurdistan
Democratic Party (KDP)-controlled town of Harir, north ofArbil, 29
March 2003 after U.S. forces began deploying in northern Iraq .
(opposite, top) Fighter of PUK flashes victory sign to author as they
march toward Kirkuk on 10 April 2003. As with most mature irreg¬

ular forces, there was a commonality of weapons and spirit, but
weapons and footgear were “whatever.” (opposite , bottom)
Female fighters of the PUK wave their green headbands in cele¬
bration of the storming of Kirkuk. Such volunteers are used for HQ
and administrative personnel, police and intelligence work.

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machine guns to support a
joint assault on approxi¬
mately 17 villages previous¬
ly seized by Ansar when
they set-up a local Taliban-
style regime in the area last
year. The villages included
the border towns of Tovailah,

Biareh, the headquarters of
Ansar, and Sarget. Sarget is
locally termed “Little Tora
Bora” by the PUK, and was
the location of a military
training camp and the infa¬
mous poison factory identi¬
fied by Secretary of State
Colin Powell in February.

The firefight lasted another day, as SF and Pesh Merga
engaged the enemy in intense close-quarter battle in the
caves and crags of the mountains. By Monday, all the Ansar
had been killed or fled to Iran.

More than 130 bodies were found at two sites; the
remainder had fled into Iran with their leaders. U.S. forces
discovered both biological and chemical weapons, including
ricin and botulinem Toxin, as well as potassium cyanide,
suicide vests of C4 explosive, and a variety of military sup¬
plies, weapons, and torture chambers in the mountain caves.

Thus ended Osama bin Laden’s last — and best — chance
to launch an immediate organized operation against the U.S.
and its allies in Iraq or the Gulf. Al-Ansar had been formed
post-11 September 2001, specifically to fight against the
independent Kurdish governments established in Northern

| Iraq under cover of the no¬
fly-zone at the 36th parallel.
Their goal was to overthrow
these governments and
establish a fundamentalist
regime and staging area to
launch attacks throughout
the Middle East.

Their attempt to reach
their goal ended in disaster,
at least this time.

Ansar’s Brief History

Ansar took its inspiration
from Osama bin Laden and
Afghanistan, but the group
has its roots in the Iran-Iraq
war of the 1980s. Iran provided aid to all anti-Saddam groups
during this period, but it also created fundamentalist groups
to supplant them and turn the Kurdish fighters into a tool for
Iranian influence in Iraq. Fundamentalist fighters in
Northern Iraq were organized by Osman Abdul Aziz during
the late 1980s with Iranian assistance. Aziz was a Muslim
intellectual and cleric imprisoned by Saddam for several
years. Upon his release, in 1987, he immediately fled to Iran,
where he organized the Bizotnawa , or Islamic Brotherhood.
The Bizotnawa fractured and then reunified over the course
of 15 years to become an instrument of al-Qaeda.

Secret cells formed inside the Bizotnawa with indepen¬
dent agendas. In 1995, Islah or “Reform” was formed
inside Bizotnawa, but did not declare itself and separate
until 1999. It was led by the notorious Mullah Keraker.

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In 1997, Kurdish Hamas , or “Enthusiasm,” formed and
split off and the Arabs formed a secret cell called Markas
(“Center”). In 1999 Aziz died in Syria. His brother, Ali, suc¬
ceeded him, but was not admired. Bizotnawa had lost its
leadership. The Bizotnawa crumbled further. That same year
Islah declared itself and split away. Tawheed, or “Unify” was
formed and split off in 2000. Finally, Komal , or “Group”
formed and split off. At this point there were six separate
fundamentalist groups opposing Saddam, including the orig¬
inal Islamic Movement of Kurdistan, or Bizotnawa. Iran
seemed to have lost control of the fundamentalist movement
it had founded as it splintered. It would be re-united by
Osama bin Laden, with the help of Saddam Hussein.

In October 2000 Mullah Keraker of Islah sent a delegation
led by a Mullah Namo to Afghanistan to receive al-Qaeda
training and ask permission to join with bin Laden. Tawheed
sent an emissary to Afghanistan as well later the same
month. Traveling the drug smuggling routes controlled by al-
Qaeda, they came to meet with the new power of fundamen¬
talist Islam. They were accepted, but ordered to reunite.

The unification of fundamentalist groups in Iraq coincid¬
ed with bin Laden’s attacks on the U.S., suggesting a com¬
prehensive regional strategy to not only declare Jihad on
America, but seize control of the oil-rich Gulf states to use as
a power base.

Bin Laden sent a Lieutenant to lead the largely Arab
Markas. In April, this Lieutenant, a Jordanian named Abu
Abdul Rahman Al-Shami, was killed in a skirmish with the
PUK. He was replaced by another bin Laden representative
named Abu Zubair (also Jordanian). In July 2001 The
Tawheed Front was formed from the union of Hamas and

Tawheed. Finally, Markas and the Tawheed Front were uni¬
fied under bin Laden’s control on 1 September 2001 with the
creation of the Jund-al-Islamiah, or “Soldiers of Islam.” They
launched their first attack on PUK forces on 23 September,
killing 43 in an ambush near the town of Halabja, the birth¬
place of Osma Aziz and the scene of Saddam Hussein’s dev¬
astating chemical attack on the Kurds in 1988. In December
2001 all groups except Komal, which guarded the valley
approach to the new base, unified under the banner of the
Ansar-al-Islamiah.

The group began bringing in chemical and biological
weapons and storing them in mountain bunkers. A “retired”
officer from Iraq intelligence named Abu Wail took charge of
the Iraqi Arabs in the group. At this point, Arabs from Saudi
Arabia, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan, many of them with
Afghanistan experience, made up over 50-75% of what was
once a majority Kurdish organization. The group launched
repeated operations against PUK fighters. On 2 April 2002,
an Ansar hit team launched an unsuccessful assassination
attempt on PUK Prime Minister Barham Salih, a key U.S.
ally in favor of a democratic Iraq aligned with the West.
Ansar has become bin Laden’s arm in Iraq. The presence of
Iraqi intelligence indicates a direct link between the two,
long denied by Saddam.

The elimination of this group clearly demonstrates that
ridding the world of Saddam Hussein will deprive Osama bin
Laden of one more refuge, and bring us one step closer to
winning the war on terror. This terror group was destroyed a
week before the encirclement of Baghdad by democratic PUK
fighters and U.S. Special Operations Forces.

Ansar was the main terrorist network in the region, with
roots stretching from Afghanistan to Palestine. Osama bin

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from the Afghan drug trade, and the
bulk of his warriors came from Arab
countries. So Ansar saw much of their
financial backing coming from the
poppy fields southeast of Kabul, while
their fighters were drawn from the al-
Shami states of Palestine, Jordan, Syria,
Saudi Arabia, plus several Iraqis of both
Arab and Kurdish descent.

The discovery of Abu Wail’s involve¬
ment gives credence to reports that Iraqi
intelligence was working hand-in-glove
with al-Qaeda. In addition, the Fedayeen
and al-Khalq irregular forces working for
Saddam also had representation in
Ansar, and that was why Wail was there,
according to PUK authorities.

According to CENTCOM, U.S. mili¬
tary intelligence “went over the area
with a fine-toothed comb” looking for
clues about al-Qaeda plans and organi¬
zational structure.

Special Operations Forces have
played a key role in eliminating the ter¬
rorist threat, and has been keeping the
heat on al-Qaeda across their area of
operations. Clearly, Iraq had become a
key component to these operations. Al-
Qaeda may have sympathizers, but it
cannot operate openly anywhere in a
recognized nation-state. Iraq, like
Afghanistan, was perfect for them
because it was another failed state. Al-
Qaeda will now be forced to take refuge
with Syria and Iran, which may give
shelter to fellow anti-Americans, but
will not sympathize with their broader
goals for a Sunni Islamic Caliphate, or
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Iraqi Kurd leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
Massoud Barazani during a press conference 28 March 2003 in
the city of Salahuddin, Iraq, in another city of the Kurdish
enclave, a string of missiles or artillery shells slammed into the
Kurdish-controlled town of Chamchamal in an apparent Iraqi
Army retaliation for an advance towards the northern city of
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of the war, and denied America a northern front. Taking a
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De Oppresso Liber.

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by Victor Black

T he end of the war in Northern Iraq took 24 hours after
the fall of Baghdad was officially announced on 9 April.
In the words of one 10th Special Forces Group NCO,
the storming of Kirkuk was “straight out of a scene
from Road Warrior.”

Some 3,000 Pesh M erga (means “those who face death”)
fighters driving pickups, jeeps, taxis, and any form of
wheeled transport available, flew up the highway in a cloud
of dust after smashing through what remained of the dispir¬
ited Iraqi opposition. They fired their Kalashnikovs in the air
as they finally entered their historic capital city, victorious
after decades of warfare. The Northern front ended when
Mosul fell the following day without a fight as the Iraqi
Republican Guard corps protecting the northernmost Iraqi
government stronghold decided discretion was the better
part of valor, especially with Baghdad fallen and the example
of the previous day’s devastation before them.

The Pesh Merga that stormed Kirkuk were led by the most
admired military hero of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan,
General “Mam” Rostem Hamid Rahim, accompanied by four
teams of U.S. Army Special Forces advisors, one for each
main axis of advance into the surrounded city. Rostem had
been fighting against Saddam and his Ba’ath party for 35

years to retake the Kirkuk region of his birth. The cheerful
warrior, known for cracking jokes during firefights, carries
25 pieces of shrapnel in his body, and is credited with a
legion of successful actions, most notably taking down an
Iraqi attack helicopter — with one arm and an RPG after
being severely wounded in action in 1978. Now he was a gen¬
eral, commanding almost three thousand fighters in a final
assault on his lifelong objective.

The final bombardment preceding the morning attack of
10 April 2003, had taken 10 days. Iraqi troops had given
ground slowly over the course of the two weeks preceding the
final two weeks under a steady barrage of American air power.

First came the B-52s, raining hot steel in the form of
JDAMs on any armor that moved, then following up with
2,000-pound daisy cutters, “bunker-busters,” and 500-pound
GPS-guided precision-strike munitions. Finally, came cluster
bombs on the infantry positions, followed by Tomahawk mis¬
sile strikes courtesy of the U.S. Navy on command and con¬
trol nodes. The final strikes on the remaining Iraqi positions
commanding approaches to the city the morning of the assault
were carried out by a combination of aircraft, including FA-18
fighter bombers, whose hellfire missiles decimated Iraqi vehi¬
cles and positions with deadly accuracy. Blasted and burned

(left) A U.S. soldier from the 173rd Airborne Brigade patrols 1 April
2003 near an airstrip in the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)-con-
trolled town of Harir, north of Arbil. Some 2 t 000 men from the U.S.
brigade have dropped into Kurdish-held northern Iraq as part of

U.S. attempts to form a northern front in their war on Iraq, (below)
American SpecOps in a Toyota 4-Runner ; loaded to the gills to do
what they did with such expertise. Author found mostly men of the
3rd SFG at Mosul , the 10th at Kirkuk.

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out vehicles littered the road, while
hundreds of trucks, tanks, and APCs lay
abandoned in ditches or remained
where their crews had abandoned them
in their positions.

Special Forces had two main mis-
sions in the Northern Campaign:
Close Air Support (CAS), and coordi¬
nating the actions of the Pesh Merga
with Central Command. Just like
Afghanistan, they were working with
resistance groups which knew the ter¬
rain and had been fighting a hit-and-
run war of attrition against a better-
armed-foe for years, in the case of Iraq,
for decades. According to one SF
trooper on the scene, “these guys had
been fighting since I was born and did¬
n’t need much training. I did some
patrolling with them for about a week
and then we were out of time. The war
was on. Our main contribution was
getting on that radio and calling in the
Air Force.”

Special Forces, typically humble
about their role, did a little more than
that, though. What they had done was
literally compensate for more than two
entire divisions of U.S. troops which
were supposed to assault through Iraq
from the North. After Turkey, like
France a member of NATO, betrayed
America and denied border access to the
60,000- plus troops already landing in
the country, America was forced to initi¬
ate the Special Forces contingency plan.
The Turkish action was unanticipated,
and was especially treacherous after
America brought in Patriot anti-missile

batteries to protect the country and
performed diplomatic cartwheels to
empress hesitant European allies to
plan a defense of Turkey in case of
Iraqi aggression, In operational terms
the Turkish betrayal was far worse
than that of France, which limited its
opposition to the political sphere.
The Turks not only sabotaged a metic¬
ulously planned one week lightning
war into a three-week campaign

(left) Author observed the Silent
Professionals at their professional —
and silent — best. Using translators to
occasionally confer with Kurd leader¬
ship , or to call in air ; the SF troopers
just taciturnly and competently went
about their business: freeing Iraq,
(right) Kurdish General Rostem f PUK
commander who led the Kirkuk raid ,
confers with his commanders. U.S. pro¬
vided airstrikes and training — better
than they got after we encouraged them
to revolt in ’91 and ’96 and left them on
their own.

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Kurdish Pesh Merga volunteer fighters of the
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and U.S.
soldiers run 3 April 2003, during a battle for
an Iraqi post close to the village of Khazer,
some 13kms from Kalak on the edge of the
Kurdish enclave, and half-way along the
road to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

which unnecessarily cost more
American lives, but actually threatened
the U.S. with statements to the effect
that they would not only deny U.S.
troops access to Iraq, but would launch
their own invasion despite U.S. opposi¬
tion if the Kurds attacked the major U.S.
objectives in the North, Kirkuk or
Mosul. Turkey, previously the seat of the
Ottoman Empire, which had ruled the
entire Persian Gulf until World War I,
has maintained designs on the northern
Iraqi oilfields near Kirkuk and even
maintained an empty senate seat for
Mosul until the present day

In the end, the Turkish blinked and
did not attack, but they had already
done significant damage to the U.S. war
plan. There was no U.S. armor in the
North, only the tanks of Saddam
Hussein’s army facing off with a few
thousand lightly armed Kurdish irregu¬
lars and their Special Forces advisors.
Instead of using their military advan¬
tage to overrun the Kurdish enclaves,
fortunately, the Iraqis chose to dig in
around Kirkuk and Mosul. American SF
took the initiative.

Kirkuk lies on the edge of PUK terri-

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Infiltrating
Turkish Lines
With Kurdish
Smugglers

T he time had come to make a deci¬
sion: Sit out the war or make a run
for it. J.C., Carlos (names changed
to protect the guilty) and I laced up
our boots and walked out the door.
We three free-lance journalists were
stuck in the filthy border town of
Silopi, Turkey, with the story of the cen¬
tury happening on the other side of the
border with Iraq. The Turks had closed
the border to U.S. troops. They certain¬
ly were not going to let free-lance jour¬
nalists cross, even if they said please.
So, we had to explore other options.

The plan we had arranged with the
Kurdish smugglers looked simple
enough. With any luck we would be in
Iraq within the hour. Four days later we
did stagger into Iraq, but if we had
know of everything that lay in between
walking out that door and walking into

An Iraqi Kurd Pesh Merga fighter gestures
to photographers to stop taking pictures
30 March 2003 from behind a barrier at
the airstrip in the Kurdistan Democratic
Party (KDP)-cantrolled town of Harir ; north
of ArbiI, alongside newly-deployed U.S.
forces in northern Iraq.

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our war-zone sanctuary we might have hesitated to cross the
threshold. We would never have signed up for the program
if we had known the experience would make SERE school
look like a joke. Sometimes ignorance is a fortunate thing.

We did the deal over cigarettes and tea in a nondescript
cafe. Drawn together by happenstance and instinct, this was
indeed a motley crew. I had spotted J.C. and Carlos in
Diyabarkir, Turkey, as two adventurers likely up for anything.
Carlos had hair down to his shoulders and J.C. had his Gerber
strapped to his chest. I figured these guys were looking for the
same thing I was, and we agreed to rendezvous in Silopi.

I found an interpreter at the fleabag hotel I was flopping
in and headed south to case the border. I immediately figured
out staring down the business end of Turkish guns that there
was only one way out. I asked my interpreter if he knew any¬
body who could get us across. He smiled and raised his shirt,
displaying a tatoo of prison scars. I had the right man.

Within hours we were sitting across the table from two like¬
ly looking mafia types. They demanded $8,000 up front. We
haggled and settled on $6,500 for the three of us; $2,000 up
front, and $4,500 Western Unioned from a lawyer friend state¬
side. This, of course, meant we had to take our new friends to
the bank and show them what Western Union was — after sev¬
eral hours of negotiation over the phone to America with a
Kurdish friend we didn’t know our lawyer had.

They understood the wondrous new technology of
Western Union and agreed to the deal. Only tiling was, we
would be hostages until the money cleared. We figured we
had it made.

Our smuggler guides told us we would throw our bags in a
boat, cross the river in the night from Silopi, Turkey, past a
guard post they had paid off to look the other way. A taxi would
pick us up and within an hour we would be in Zaho, Iraq.

We sat in the hotel lobby and waited for the pickup. We
told ourselves we had done everything
* right. We paid roughly $2,000 up front
| and would wire the remaining $4,500
x upon our safe arrival in Iraq. We
g would have to remain the “guests” of
o our guides until the money cleared,
l but hey, what could go wrong with
| such a fool-proof plan? We would be
toasting each other on the way to Erbil
the next morning.

We should have known no plan sur¬
vives first contact. Ours didn’t even
survive that long.

After four hours in the lobby, we
knew something was wrong. Finally, the
one smuggler who spoke English
appeared at our side.

“The militairs are very busy
tonight,” he said. “We have to change
our plan.”

He convinced us nothing was seri¬
ously wrong. We would now have to
walk across the border the following
night, but it would only take an hour,
and a taxi would pick us up on the
other side. He explained the Turkish
soldiers manning the highway check¬
point blocking the mountain access
road to Sirinak withdrew 500 meters up
that road to a military camp every
night. They then moved the checkpoint
back to the intersection with the main
highway in the morning. We would sim¬
ply drive to a house owned by a friend
across from the military 1 camp within
the hour. When the soldiers left the
camp in the morning and moved the
checkpoint back down to the road to
the highway, we would then automati¬
cally be on the other side. We would
then simply drive to the border, run
across during the night, and a car would
be waiting on the other side.

This is exactly the way it worked for
the checkpoint anyway, and we quietly
drove out of the smuggler’s driveway in
the morning after sleeping under the
walls of the Turkish military camp the

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Author (above, Gargoyles, folding AK) and associate pose with
fallen statue of a fallen leader of a fallen regime. Reporting on
history as it happens is fun, but sometimes just getting there can
be half the fun.

(opposite top): Force of U.S. SpecOps and Pesh Merga que-up for
road march. For SF it was veni, vidi, vici: for the Kurds, it had
been a long wait.

(opposite bottom): SpecOps leader with “full-dress” M4 carbine
slung behind, does really important Army stuff on the radio.

night before. We thought we had it made. We would spend
the day driving through Turkey to our drop-off point, and at
nightfall we would walk 5 km. into Iraq.

We drove through the mountain town of Sirinak without
challenge at 0900, and congratulated ourselves on passing the
last chance for compromise. Then everything went to hell.

A man flagged us down on the mountain road, apparently
their contact. We spoke excitedly in Kurdish. Apparently a
new checkpoint had been set up around the bend. We would
have to get out, walk around the mountainside, and get in the
car on the other side of the checkpoint. We should have
known when they threw our rucksacks at us this would be
the last time we would see the car.

We followed the silent Kurd from the roadside, a young
smuggler in jeans and tennis shoes looking like he came
straight from town. We half-climbed, half-fell through the
snow, grass, and small waterfalls on the mountainside down
to the river below. Then, gasping for breath, we climbed
again for hours back up the other side of the mountain. Our
guide spoke, of course, no English, but only pointed and
climbed. We had no choice but to follow.

By noon we reached a cave in the side of a cliff where a
middle aged mountain man was waiting in traditional Kurdish
garb, an AK-47 slung over his shoulder. Of course, he spoke
no English either. Our first guide left. Exhausted from the
unexpected climb and overloaded with gear we would never
have brought on a backpacking trip, we repeatedly asked
where we would find the car again.

He only smiled and repeated u taxi
no” over and over.

We called our smuggler contacts
from Silopi on our cell phone, who
cheerfully informed us it was now
impossible to reach a road, let alone find
a car, but after a short walk, we would
reach a house where we would rest until
nightfall, and then make a quick dash
across the border. We started walking
again. The scenery was breathtaking,
but one false step could send you a
thousand feet to the rocks below. That
was when Carlos’ legs gave out.

The Kurdish smugglers had told us
to dump our water to save weight when
we left the car. Unfortunately, Carlos
had listened to them. Four hours later,
the heat cramps had started. I shared
my water with him, but it was too late.
Carlos needed hours of rest and shade.
This we did not have. We now divided
Carlos’s gear between us as we
switched off trying to steady him from
in front or behind. It was usually
impossible to walk side by side on the mountain paths or up
the rock faces as we made our way. Carlos collapsed every
10 feet for six hours, but never gave up, silently dragging
himself to his feet without a word and soldiering on.

A small boy no more than 10-years-old, apparently our
guides son, appeared out of nowhere on the trail. He blithely
shouldered two of our extra bags, no doubt doubling his body
weight, and ran up the trail ahead. It was clear these people
were bom to this land — and we were not. We would find out
in coming days that this unique breed of men could live with¬
out water, surviving on the occasional bread crust and scrap
of goat cheese, a cup of tea, cigarettes, and mountain air.
Sweating and silently cursing, we snuggled on behind.

By evening we had reached a small town, apparently a safe
haven of sorts. Our guide pointed to Carlos and said “Silopi.”
He wanted Carlos to give up and go back to Silopi and face
arrest rather than continue on. We refused. He indicated with
up-and-down movements of his hands that we would have to
climb many mountains. He kept repeating, “Asker” the
Turkish word for soldier, and pantomimed hiding from
patrols and then running. This was not the infiltration we
had planned for.

Carlos eventually volunteered to go back, but finally, the
guide changed his mind. We rested. Now, instead of turning
into the town, our guide led us through the night. Carlos
was slightly better now. As silently as we could we crept past
the outskirts of the town, fording streams and clambering
over barbed wire, trying to keep low to avoid the probing
eyes of sentries from guard towers on the road near town.
We followed our guide to a small cinder-block house where
we sat on the floor and gratefully drank steaming tea
pressed into our hands.

To our glee, our phone signal strength suddenly improved
and we called our Silopi contact once again. We asked what
the plan was now. Our contact told us that we would rest
here until 0200 hours and then, if Carlos was ready, we
would all go to Iraq. A horse would follow with our gear in
the morning. This sounded like a much better plan.

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had destroyed 12 tanks, three antiair¬
craft guns and one towed howitzer. The
engagement had lasted about 10 min¬
utes. While Iraqi tanks had reportedly
been in bad shape before the war
began, this engagement just illustrates
the value of maintaining a good bore-
site and performing those Armor
Accuracy Checks.

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Earlier in the day, “Apache” Troop
had destroyed nine tanks and killed
about 350 Iraqi infantrymen (with
Bradley main-gunfire accounting for
five of the nine tank kills). The other
vehicles destroyed included an
armored personnel carrier and 43 civil¬
ian-style trucks and cars being used to
transport fighters to the battle. The
Iraqis had simply been driving down
the freeway when Apache troop
attacked. The Squadron Commander
felt that “A” (or “Apache”) troop had
probably run into elements of Iraq’s
Hammurabi Division as they shifted
south into positions west of the airport.

The Troop also had fought a running
battle with light-infantry militia and
suicide bombers through the night and
into the morning of the 4th. On the 5th,
while trying to locate the source of a
mortar that had shelled the squadron’s
Tactical Operations Center about 9
miles southwest of Baghdad, troopers
happened upon an estate owned by
Saddam’s eldest son, Uday. The aban¬
doned estate included two villas (both
hit by Air Force bombs), a swimming
pool and a yacht on a trailer. In one
building, they found hundreds of

O ne of the “embedded” journalist teams traveling with the 7th Cavalry was
from CNN. The news conglomerate had hired nine staff from British-
based security company AKE for its Iraq team. Paul Johnson, an eight-year
veteran of Australia’s elite Special Air Service Regiment and currently opera¬
tions manager for AKE Australia, was the driver for CNN reporter Walt
Rodgers and his cameraman.

During the Cav’s tenacious drive on Baghdad, Johnson saved an Iraqi
Republican Guard lieutenant who had been left for dead on the side of the road.
When an Iraqi unit tried to drive through the Cav’s line on the night of 3 April,
this soldier became a casualty and lay out on the roadside for five hours. The
Iraqis were pinning-down everyone in the rear with sporadic artillery fire, so a
medical armored personnel carrier couldn’t immediately come forward. The lit¬
tle band of journalists and their minders secured the Iraqi and after giving him
first-aid, the prisoner not only survived but “sang like a bird,” providing U.S,
intelligence with some valuable information. — A. G.

(above) U.S . Marines blow-up the Ministry
of Defense building in Baghdad 10 April
2003. (below) American Marines in an
M240 GPMG-equipped High Mobility
Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)
from Task Force Tarawa moving to support
fellow Marines during a fire - fight in
Nasiriyah, on 1 April 2003.

pounds of frozen chicken and promptly
proceeded to cook as much of it as pos¬
sible over an open fire.

By the morning of the 6th, the
Cavalry was just southwest of Baghdad
International Airport and some Iraqi
civilians were beginning to step for¬
ward and collaborate. They were telling
interpreters and intelligence officers
where the Fedayeen were hiding in
schools during the day, coming out only
at night to launch hit-and-run attacks
on the 7th Cavalry.

Lessons “Earned”

As the dust started to settle around
Baghdad International, a widely circu¬
lated E-Mail message from V Corps
Master Gunner First Sergeant Jack R.
Cooper chronicled a series of “lessons
learned” after traveling with 3/7
Cavalry. Cooper reported that tank and
Bradley crews have started using cap¬
tured enemy AK-47 rifles for personal
protection, since the Fedayeen took
advantage of the reduced visibility dur¬
ing sandstorms to move in close. The
crews are armed with 9mm Berettas,
but the AK-47s do a much better job.

The 25mm chain gun and the 7.62-
caliber light machine gun on the
Bradley Fighting Vehicle were particu¬
larly useful, although the gas plug on
the 7.62 has been the biggest mainte¬
nance issue. The units didn’t bring
along enough spare plugs, but leaving
what spares they had soak in an ammo
can with some JP-8 fuel would self-clean
the plugs while the mission continued.

Adam Geibel has been a New Jersey
Army National Guard soldier for 15
years, with a background in Armor,
Cavalryi and Military Intelligence. ^

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Like The Phoenix, An Ultra-Rare Rifle
Rises From Ashes Of The Cold War

Text & Photos by Gary Paul Johnston

H J| ¥ hen Soviet communism swallowed much of
Europe after World War II, the countries it
I W enslaved became satellites of the evil empire.
Among the first orders of business was strict standard¬
ization of military equipment, including small arms, but
one country didn’t buy all the Soviets had to offer.

One of the most progressive countries taken captive by
the Soviets was Czechoslovakia. However, because
Czechoslovakia was economically stronger than other
countries taken over by the Soviet Bloc, and had a histo¬
ry as a world leader in small-arms development, it was
permitted a degree of initiative in
developing and making weapons
of native design.

At the time of the takeover, the
Czechoslovak arms industry was
having renewed success on the
world market. The Czechoslovak
Army and Government were
understandably proud of the
accomplishments of this native
industry, and so Moscow decided
that standardization would be
imposed only so far as was neces¬
sary to meet military require¬
ments. After all, such a decision
was in harmony with the Soviet
propaganda line that claimed that
the establishment of the
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic expressed the free choice
of the people of Czechoslovakia.

Among the first rifles of native Czech design was the
Vz. 52 semi-automatic rifle (Vz. is the abbreviation of the
Czech word Vzor , meaning model). Resembling the
Soviet SKS on its exterior, the Vz. 52 operated differently
from and shared no parts in common with the Soviet rifle,
being instead a combination of the German G41w gas sys¬
tem and a Garand-styie firing mechanism, with a detach¬
able-box magazine. First chambered for the unique Czech
intermediate-sized cartridge, the 7.62x45mm, the Vz. 52
was later converted to use the Soviet 7.62x39mm round.

In 1958, the Czechoslovak Army adopted a brand new
assault rifle, the Vz. 58. Of native design, the Vz. 58 was a
product of the great arms producer, Ceska Zbrojovka, to
which the words Narodni Podnik (Peoples’ Factory or
Cooperative Enterprise) were added after the Soviet takeover.

Like the Vz. 52, the Vz. 58 resembles its Soviet Bloc coun¬
terpart, in this case, the AK-47, but as with the Vz, 52; the
resemblance is barely skin deep. In fact, the only commonal¬
ity between the Vz. 58 and the AK-47 is the 7.62x39mm car¬
tridge both rifles fire.

Unique Operation

Sharing no parts whatsoever with the AK-47, the Vz. 58
uses a separate short-stroke gas piston rather than the long-
stroke piston attached to the bolt-carrier of the AK. Whereas
the AK has a rotating bolt, that of the Vz. 58 locks via a piv¬
oting locking block like that used in
the Walther P38 and Beretta 92 pis¬
tols, except in the Vz. 58 this block is
inverted. When the gas piston forces
the carrier to move rearward, the car¬
rier cams the front of the locking
block up, causing its dual locking
lugs to disengage from their recesses
in the sides of the receiver.

Rather than using the convention¬
al pivoting hammer of the AK-47, the
Vz. 58 has a linear hammer that rides
in the bolt carrier and bolt. When
released by the sear, this hammer
slides forward to contact the striker
to fire the rifle. With two sears, the
rifle fires either semi- or full-auto-
matically depending on the position

of the selector.

Although the Vz. 58 has what appears to be an ambidex¬
trous magazine release, it most easily operated from the left
side with the help of a recess in the stamped trigger guard.
To the right of this release is a bolt hold-open device similar
to that on the FN-FAL, which automatically activates after the
last shot is fired from a magazine, or can be engaged by hand.
The unique 30-shot magazine used by the Vz. 58 is made of
lightweight alloy.

After first being issued with hardwood furniture, the Vz.
58’s stock, grip, forend and handguard were later changed to
cyrolac, a strong synthetic rendered in a mottled black and
reddish brown. The rifle’s receiver is machined from a single
steel forging.

As with the AK-47, the Vz. 58’s recoil spring system is
housed in a stamped steel receiver cover at the rear of the
receiver, but this spring and that for the striker are captive in

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The camera catches an empty 7.62x39mm case
being ejected from the VZ2000 a millisecond
after Gil Angelotti fires the rifle off-hand . Recoil
was light, and the rifle never malfunctioned.

Formerly as scarce as hens’ teeth in the
U.S., the petite Czech Vz. 58 is now
available in semi-automatic only its the
VZ2000 from Ohio Ordnance Works, it n
shown here with its leather quad maga¬
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This close-up of the bolt group Illustrates the unique falling-
block locking mechanism of the Vz.58 and VZ2000. Except for
being inverted , it is exactly like that used in the German P.38
and Beretta 92 pistols ,

The sample VZ2000 f serial #00W030, proved to be a 180% “dead
ringer " for an original Vz.58. Only its machined semi-automatic ONLY
receiver and several internal parts are not original'. Note the special
indented trigger guard that allows access to the magazine release,
(left) Among the unique features of the Vz.58 and the new VZ2000
is that the rifle uses standard SKS 10-shot chargers. With the bolt
locked to the rear and an empty magazine in place, the rifle can be
reloaded using three chargers.

the cover. Made of a solid forging, the bolt carrier contains
the cocking handle that is angled upward on the right side.

Unlike the AK-47, the Vz. 58’s bolt carrier is cut to accept
chargers, and uses the 10-shot charger designed for the SKS.
With its bolt locked to the rear with a magazine in place, the
Vz. 58 can be fully or partially loaded using these chargers,
whenever necessary.

Fieldstripping

Without a hammer and associated parts, the Vz. 58 is a
very simple rifle, as is its takedown procedure. After remov¬
ing the magazine and making sure the chamber is empty,
close the bolt and dry fire the rifle. Then push out the retain¬
ing pin at the rear of the receiver from left to right until it
stops on its detente.

Now lift up the receiver cover and remove it and its cap¬
tive recoil and striker springs. Then pull back the bolt-carri¬
er until it and the bolt can be lifted out of the receiver. Pull
back the linear hammer and rotate it counter-clockwise to
remove it from the rear of the carrier. The bolt and locking
block will then drop out the bottom of the carrier.

Push out the retaining pin in the rear-sight base from left
to right. Now, pull back and lift off the handguard, Then
pull back the piston until it clears the gas cylinder. Then lift

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ward from the rear sight base. No fur¬
ther disassembly is necessary.
Reassembly is in reverse order remem¬
bering to pull the trigger to allow the
hammer to go forward before replac¬
ing the receiver cover and its springs.

Petite and lightweight, the Vz. 58 is
noticeably handier than the AK-47 and
is quite reliable and accurate. It is also
made like a fine watch, as one would
expect of the Czechs, but it has almost
never been seen in the Free World,
that is, until now.

Accuracy Chart

7.62x39mm Cartridge:

Velocity

Small Group

Large Group

Average

E. German 123 gr. ball

2,289 fps

4.18”

;:$Qr

4.68”

Federal 123 gr. JSP

2,294 fps

2.12”

2.49”

2.33”

PMC 123 gr. FMJ

2,344 fps

1.24”

2.29”

Winchester 123 gr. JSP

2,357 fps

2.02”

3.11”

2.41”

Wolf 123 gr. FMJ

2,302 fps

2.16”

2.58”

2.39”

(Five 3-Shot, 100-Yard Bench-Rest Groups Using ProChrono LE. Elev: 6,500’; Temp: 36'

Humid: 28%.)

Accuracy from the sample VZ200Q was more than acceptable t as this 100-yard, 3-shot
group illustrates .

The VZ2D0D

Thanks to Ohio Ordnance Works
(OOW), the Vz. 58 will soon be avail¬
able to American collectors in a new
semi-automatic-only version. Built on
a copy of the Vz. 58’s receiver, the new
rifle is exact in almost ever} 7 detail,
but one: It will not accept any selec¬
tive-fire parts.

Engineered from drawings of an
original Vz. 58 receiver, OOW’s receiver
is 100% CNG machined from a solid
billet of 4150 steel before being heat-
treated and matte blued. It is then
assembled on original like-new parts
along with some new internal parts also
made by OOW to comply with the law
To achieve a legal 16” barrel, a muzzle
extension is permanently tig welded to
both the barrel and front sight base. To retain its authentici¬
ty while commemorating the new r millenium, the rifle is
called the VZ2000, the year the project began, and OOW also
changed the designation from Vz. to VZ. In addition, OOW
added the letters “S” and “F” to the new receiver for SAFE

VZEQQO

SPECIFICATIONS

Caliber:
Velocity:
Operation:
Method Of Locking:
Type Of Fire:
Barrel Length:
Overall Length:
Weight:
Feed Device:
Safety Device:
Sights;

Stocks:

Finish:

Features:

Price:

7.62x39mm
2,300 fps.

Short-stroke gas piston
Falling-block (Walther pattern)
Semi-automatic only
16-1/8 in.

33-3/4 la

6.8 pounds

30-shot box magazine

Thumb safety/selector

(front) Protected post drift adj. for W/E

(rear) Tangent, adjustable for elevation

Cyrolac synthetic

Blue

New semi-automatic receiver built with new
original Vz. 58 parts

$ 1 , 200.00

and FIRE.

After examining prototype VZ2000 serial number
OOWO01 (Ohio Ordnance Works #1} a few years ago, I
have been able to test an example of the final version of the
rifle, this one bearing serial number OOW030.

Exquisite in its execution, the VZ2000’s receiver is as
perfect in detail as Eve seen. All original parts fit to per¬
fection, and the finish matches perfectly. The original bolt,
extractor and locking block are left with their as-issued
hard-chrome finish, as is the gas piston and its cylinder.

With handling characteristics resembling those of the
IPS. M4 Carbine, the ultra-light VZ2000, like its Vz. 58
ancestor, is like shooting nothing else in its class. Even
with its fully machined receiver, the rifle congers up the
impression of an added adjective such as “mini,” or
“baby,” in front of its designation.

Shots Fired

Having spoken with Mr. Thomas B. Nelson, author of
The World's Assault Rifles, about the Vz. 58,1 learned that
the rifle was not designed for sustained automatic-fire, and
does not perform well in this role, because of overheating.
Mr. Nelson reported having fired some 18,000 rounds
through several Vz. 58 rifles some 25 years ago, all on full-
automatic, where the rifle quickly became very hot.

The Vz. 58’s light weight also causes it to rise more
quickly. However, Mr Nelson did report that even
though those firing the weapon had to wear asbestos
gloves to hold the forend, the Vz- 58s being tested did

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Firing the first 30 rounds from our
test VZ2000 rifle without stopping
caused the rifle and its forend and
handguard to become quite warm just
as Tom Nelson had reported.

Firing the semi-automatic VZ2000
off-hand out to 100 yards, I was able to
make consistent rapid hits on 2’X2’ steel
targets with no trouble. This proved
that not only were the VZ2000’s sights
on, but also that this 40-year-old rifle’s
handling characteristics were excellent.

One thing common with many for¬
eign rifles was also found with this one.
The selector is not in step with Western
thinking. That is, rotating the tail of the
selector to the rear allows the rifle to be
fired and rotating it forward makes the
rifle “safe.” The selectors of most
American semi-automatic rifles work in
an opposite manner.

The SKS chargers (or stripper clips)
work perfectly in the VZ2000. However,
each empty charger must be pulled out
of the bolt carrier and discarded. Three
10-shot chargers fully load 30-shot Vz.
58 magazine in the rifle.

In the accuracy department, the VZ
2000 performed exceptionally well, and
no doubt as well as when it was assem¬
bled as a Vz.58. After all, the only dif¬
ference is its newly machined semi-auto¬
matic only receiver. At 100 yards from
the bench with a variety of 7.62x39mm
ammunition, the VZ2000 consistently
averaged 5-shot groups of from 2.5” to
5” with the worst accuracy coming from
some East German 7.62x39mm ammu¬
nition that I have never found to be accu¬
rate in any rifle. No malfunctions of any
kind were experienced.

Few have ever seen a real Vz. 58
rifle, much less handled one. The fact
that this ultra-rare rifle is available in
the U.S. under any circumstances would
be exciting, but being available with a
completely machined receiver of such
high quality is a bonus to say the least.
The VZ2000 is equal in quality to Ohio
Ordnance Works’ fabulous Browning
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Thunder Run For Kirkuk

Continued from page 61

tory, and the forces of the PUK leader,
Jalal Talabani, took the lead on the
Kirkuk front. Mosul borders Kurdistan
Democratic Party (KDP) territory, and
the fighters of KDP warlord Massoud
Barzani concentrated on that city. Each
had their complement of U.S. SE This
means SF had to play the additional
role as peacemakers and coordinators
between the KDP and PUK,
whose coalition government
was less than five years old.

The groups had fought civil
wars in 1996, when the KDP
leader, Massoud Barzani, had
enlisted the aid of Saddam
Hussein’s armored battalions
to rid Erbil of his PUK rivals,
and in 1998, when Barzani
had cooperated with the
Turkish Army in an incursion
across the border to attack the
PUK. According to uncon¬
firmed reports in Ankara,

Barzani may have promised
the Turks he would cooperate
with them if they invaded Iraq
to attack PUK forces if they

seized Kirkuk. This was a tense mar¬
riage, and while the Pesh Merga on
both sides cooperated without excep¬
tion, there was little coordination
except that provided by SF. SF was the
glue that held the coalition together,
and as the representatives of America,
they did a stellar job in leading a
diverse and irregular force against a
well-armed and trained foe.

The U.S. Special Forces were
stretched thin, with 3-6 members per
each Hess of Pesh Merga. The Pesh do

not follow a typical U.S. military orga¬
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support units; ohly combat support in
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U.S. SF NCOs operated at the Hess-
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Kirkuk is the oil-rich his¬
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had family in Mosul, and the Arab
enclave was the last major city to fall to
the U.S.-led coalition. The leader of
Mosul was known as Abdullah Wahosh ,
translated as “Abdullah the Monster.”
A close relative of Hussein’s defense
minister, he made a fortune in smug¬
gling and was responsible for the
abduction and murder of hundreds of
political opponents of the regime.

SF called in airstrikes and pushed
the Iraqis back hill by hill, taking, los¬
ing, and retaking town after town en
route to their final objective. Major
actions took place around the town of
Kalak on the Mosul line, as well as
Chamchamal and Taqtaq on the road to
Kirkuk. The Kalak line moved back
and forth three times as the Iraqis
counterattacked with tanks to maintain
their position. According to one SF
NCO, “you know you are in the shit
when you see the tanks coming at your
foxhole.” Somehow, with the help of a
few AT-4s and a lot of courage, SF held
their ground.

Starting on Thursday, 27 March, the
Iraqis made a series of tactical with¬
drawals toward Kirkuk. On Monday, 1
April, the U.S.-backed Kurdish militia
advanced to Taqtaq, 24 kilometers from
Kirkuk and within sight of the lights of
the city. Under intense bombardment,
the Iraqis made their final withdrawal
to the outskirts of Kirkuk. They had left
in the night after intense bombard¬
ment, leaving unmarked minefields in
their wake to slow the Kurdish
advance. They dug-in and waited for
what would be the final assault.

Sunday, 31 March, under intense
bombardment of their mountain posi¬
tions south of Kalak on the road to
Erbil, the Iraqis had also given ground,
and the coalition drew to within 50
kilometers of Mosul.

The northern coalition attacked
toward Mosul and Kirkuk simultane¬
ously. On the Mosul road from Kalak,
the Iraqis blew the bridges and with¬
drew into the city, which delayed the
advance for hours until a makeshift
repair team was able to partially repair
one of the spans and enable a slow
trickle of vehicles to advance toward
the city. By nightfall, Kurdish Pesh
Merga were sending recon teams into
the city, but CENTCOM ordered the
KDP to withdraw, and Bavzani, who
reportedly maintained contact with the
Turks who had threatened invasion,
relayed the command. Mosul surren¬
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the 8th of 10 days of bombardment,
General Rostem, of the PUK, personally
led a team of SF to recon Iraqi positions
in Kirkuk from the hills of Bani Makan
overlooking the city. This would be the
main axis of advance. There were three
more axes: Kirkuk was the boyhood
home of the General who had first
enlisted as a Pesh Merga in 1967. Born
in 1952, he had spent his entire life
fighting to retake Kirkuk and conduct¬
ing hit-and-run attacks in the area
against the Iraqi Ba’ath Party which
Saddam had taken over in in 1979. He
had stormed Kirkuk in 1991 after the
first Gulf War when then-President
Bush Sr. had urged the Iraqi people to
rise up and attack Saddam. He had been
forced to withdraw with heavy losses,
however, after the U.S. did not support
him, when the Iraqi counterattack, sup¬
ported by tanks and attack helicopters,
came from Baghdad. This was truly a
second Bay of Pigs to many internation¬
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attacked thinking the U.S. would sup¬
port them. At that time, the U.S. had
been self-constrained by accepting a
United Nations mandate which called
for an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait,
but did not authorize regime change in
Baghdad. The U.S. would not breach a
U.N. mandate it had already accepted,
and the Kurds were defeated in the
North, just as spontaneous uprisings
across Iraq were crushed. This time
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until noon, at which point the Pesh
Mergas charged forward screaming
“Kirkuk! Kirkuk!”

The hour-long firefight was intense
but ultimately successful, with no casu¬
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Kurdish fighters, or approximately two
Hess. Seizing the final ring of hills over¬
looking Kirkuk, the Pesh Merga didn’t
stop, but raced to their vehicles and
made a beeline for the city.

The U.S./Pesh Merga coalition
attacked simultaneously along four
main axes. Similar actions took place
along the three other axes of advance
into Kirkuk under Rostem’s command,
also supported by U.S. SF, who coordi¬
nated CAS support for the whole oper¬
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mately two Hess each, totaling approx¬
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One attack came from Qushtapa in the
North, made up of KDP fighters from
Erbil attacking from Altun Kupri
attacking along two roads, one through
Dibis and one straight to Kirkuk. Three
PUK axes attacked from the East and
South. One came from the Northeast at
Taqtaq, one from due East at Chimin
under Rostem, and one from the
Southeast from Qadir Karan through a
town named Lailan.

Upon seizing the hills overlooking
the Kirkuk, General Rostem loaded his
fighters into their vehicles and charged
across the plain in a “thunder run” for
Kirkuk. Similar actions took place
along the other axes of advance.
Resistance in the city was light, with
pockets of resistance being quickly
overcome at the airport and other areas.
At sight of the Pesh Merga, most of the
Iraqi units doffed their uniforms and
attempted to melt into the civilian pop¬
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U.S. SF had once more accom¬
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help from the Pesh Merga and U.S. Air
Force. They had overcome incredible
odds in overcoming the lack of conven¬
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once more earned the moniker:
“Anything, Anywhere, Anyhow.”

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and a new beginning for his people. No
longer were the mountains his only
friends. De Opprcsso Liber

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Carlos force-hydrated himself water
and we fell exhausted onto the intri¬
cately patterned and padded Kurdish
blankets on the floor.

Within two hours we were up again
and ready to go. With the older guide in
the lead, the four of us hiked through
the fields above the town, keeping a
wary eye on the lights of the Turkish
Army outposts that dotted the distant
mountain peaks around us. With any
luck, we would be in Iraq by dawn.

We were wary of two things,
Turkish patrols and mines. We were
near the border now, and the Turks had
planted mines on the trails to stop
smugglers just like us. Similarly, it
seemed impossible to be silent in the
night, and we froze each time a boot
dislodged a rock or an unexpected
drop-off sent one of us plunging sever¬
al feet. By a miracle, we reached a small
footbridge over the mountain river we
“knew” was the border. Looming 100
meters from the bridge was a guard
tower, sitting in the darkness on a rock
outcropping overlooking the bridge as
the night sky turned gray, with the
oncoming dawn. Total silence reigned.

Our guide crept forward to recon the
tower. After minutes that seemed
hours, the old man motioned us for¬
ward. Apparently the guards were occu¬
pied. If we were seen, the guards would
undoubtedly open fire and give chase if
we survived the first volley. We would
learn later that a journalist was shot
and killed trying to cross the river back
near Silopi that same night. We stepped
out on the trail and ran forward in a
silent rush across the bridge, and didn’t
stop running until we reached the bend
in the trail blocking the tower’s view.
We were sure a car would be waiting
for us and our ordeal was at an end.

Five hours of forced marching later,
we concluded there would be no car.
We stopped to rest and checked the
GPS. We were still in Turkey. While we
had crossed the correct river, we had
crossed far east of Silopi in the moun¬
tains, and the river was not the border
at that point. An entire mountain range
lay between us and safety in Iraq.
Another AK-toting Kurd showed up
from the other direction, apparently
our guide’s 20-something son. At least
he brought breakfast: Kurdish bread,
tea, and goat cheese. He then trudged
on toward Turkey, apparently on anoth¬
er mission for his clan.

After a brief rest we hiked silently on
toward Iraq. Climbing the cliffs and
fording rushing mountain streams, we
climbed and walked through the day,
ducking for cover whenever we heard
the approach of the Turkish helicopters
which routinely flew the mountain pass¬
es looking for smugglers — like us.
Now we knew why our guides were
armed. If we were caught and not shot
on sight, we would be arrested and
deported. If they were caught, it could
mean a decade in prison, and we knew
these men would never accept that.
Unfortunately, since we were with
them, that was now our fate, too.
Bruised, battered, and blistered, we had
to keep going, we had nowhere else to
turn. We grimly joked with each other,
asking our guides “where’s the boat.”
They smiled without understanding and
led us further into the mountains.

We made camp at dusk under a giant
rock and collapsed next to the fire. The
young man from the morning showed
up with our original jean clad guide car¬
rying our heavy packs. Of course, there
was no horse. We were starting to build
rapport with our guides, and were able
to discern a new word from our guide
— PKK. Great. Our smuggler friends
were part of a gang of communist ter¬
rorists wanted on both sides of the bor¬
der. Thank God they needed our money.

We just hoped the money they
planned on getting was their share of
the wire we were sending to Turkey,
and not the cash we had hidden in our
money belts. We eyed their AK-47s and
wondered, ate more bread, cheese, and
drank their ubiquitous tea. We then
crawled into our sleeping bags and
slept in a cave next to a roaring fire.

At 0300 we got up, rucked-up, and
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We knew from map, compass, and GPS
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also new we were at best half-way
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longer worked and we could no longer
contact the smugglers in Silopi for
information about a game plan we
doubted they knew much about in the
first place. It was apparent the Silopi
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and didn’t ask questions. Unfortun¬
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ly after I entered Kuwait with the lead
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Iraqi armored brigade after armored
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without suffering any losses.

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ever written. Yeah, I’m proud to say,
he’s a personal friend of mine.)

Twelve years later, it was quite
apparent that even with Saddam’s
desperate efforts to upgrade his mili¬
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last time.

Chemical, Biological and Nuke
weapons. Yep, I readily admit that I was
not overly enthusiastic about running
around in the desert wealing a hot,
heavy suit and booties to protect me
against “bad stuff.” I’m willing to take,
and have taken, my chances with small
arms or artillery or air-dispensed ord¬
nance. But that esoteric shit does noth¬
ing for me at all. Maybe I’m a coward.
So be it.

I will say I was as surprised as the
“chattering elite” that he did not use
the bad stuff. Maybe he figured that the
eunuch-like meddlers at the UN would
eventually pull his bacon out of the fire
before we smoked him. His refusal cer¬
tainly wasn’t because of any ethics or
morality.

However, no matter how sweet the
taste of victory, we’ve got some major,
major problems shaping up. What are
we going to do about the Shi’ite
majority falling victim to a small but
dedicated group of Muslim fundamen¬
talists, allegedly supported by the
repressive Mullahs in Iran, who are
intent on establishing a fundamental¬
ist state in Iraq? I sure as hell don’t
know. I hope the White House does,
though I have my doubts.

And, in closing, not a “tip of the hat”
but a “kick of the boot” to the sancti¬
monious “Colonel Blimps” who are
coming down with a heavy hand on any
of our troops who want to bring sou¬
venirs back home, because we’re “liber¬
ators,” not “occupiers.

To these REMFs, I say, “Up yours.” ^

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H opefully, the looting and shooting across
Iraq [at press time] will soon subside,
and peace will settle over the innocents
of Iraq — a people who’ve suffered only blood¬
shed and repression ever since our CIA recruit¬
ed Saddam Hussein more than 40 years ago.

Blame it on the Cold War, when “Better dead
than Red” became our national byword, and any
useful cutthroats were automatically added
to the team if they were against communism.

We would have dealt with the devil if he had
offered to shoot a commie for Uncle Sam.

So when Iraqi Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim start¬
ed playing footsie with the Soviets, placing his Red pals in
power positions in his government, all wasn’t exactly
copasetic in Washington. At the time, CIA Director Allen
Dulles declared Iraq “the most dangerous spot in the world.”

Enter Saddam, whose potential for violence suited us to
the max.

Whether it was the threat of Soviet missiles being set up
in Iraq or the chance to secure all that black liquid gold as
ours for the pumping, we hired Psycho Saddam as our hit
man, set him up in an apartment across the street from the
prime minister’s Ministry of Defense and ordered Qasim
taken out with “extreme prejudice.”

But the Mustached One’s 1959 assassination attempt was
a mess-up from the get-go, the botched mission a precursor
to his subsequent eight-year war with Iran and later fights
with Stormin’ Norman and Tommy Franks. The signs were
all there right from the start — we just didn’t take the time
to read the tea leaves.

For openers, Saddam lost his nerve and triggered the
ambush too soon. One member of this hit team that couldn’t
shoot straight had the wrong ammo; another, the grenade
man, couldn’t fling that sucker because it got caught in his
coat; and yet a third member missed the prime minister but
somehow managed to shoot Saddam in the leg. Qasim
escaped, and so did Saddam, limping off to Cairo, Egypt,
where — even after all those blunders — the CIA propped
him up in a safehouse and kept his pockets lined with
Yankee Green while continuing his training in terrorism.

In 1963, after Qasim was knocked-off in a second CIA
black op, Saddam scurried home to slay his way up the power
ladder and eventually become head of the dreaded al-Jihaz ci-
Khas , the feared intelligence apparatus of the Ba’ath party
From there, with a little more help from his CIA pals, he

continued to plot, plunder and massacre his
way to the head-beast slot, where we anointed
him our newest very best friend. Not just
because of the Cold War or Iraq’s rich oil
deposits, but also because he went after
our former best friend and newest major enemy,
Iran. We supported our favorite new despot
with the works: arms and munitions, precursors
for chemical and biological weapons, and intel¬
ligence information gained from our ultra-secret
intelligence intercepts of Iranian radio traffic
and other hot skinny from our satellites show¬
ing up-to-the-minute Iranian battle dispositions.

Even current SecDef Donald Rumsfeld rushed to
Saddam’s palace in 1983 to bow and scrape and assure the
Bully of Baghdad he had a Ronald Reagan-signed blank
check for almost any bombs and bullets in our arsenal.
After which our generals and admirals taught him how to
use them, completing his morph into a master of Military
Miscalculation.

Then, in 1990, Saddam did a Noriega and foolishly bit
the hand that fed him — as has almost every U.S.-sponsored
Cold War dictator from every dark corner of every conti¬
nent. His ill-conceived blitzkrieg against one of our primary
gas stations, Kuwait, only served to get him locked-down in
Iraq for 12 no-fly-zone years, with heavy sanctions and
bombing raids.

And when he still didn’t get it, the pre-emptors decided
to take him out for good.

Now billions and perhaps trillions of our dollars and our
best and brightest will be rebuilding Iraq to create a stable
government — a beacon of democratic light in a dismally
troubled region.

But that’s only if we don’t empower yet another world-
class serial killer, and then in a decade or two have to spend
still more precious American lives making another regime
change in a country that’s already paid too hard a price. ^

http://www.hackworthxom is the address of
David Hackworth’s homepage.

Send mail to EO. Box 11179, Greenwich, CT 06831.
Look for his new book, Steel My Soldiers 9 Hearts,
(Rugged Land LLC, New York City).

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